Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c22.134

c22.134

A short chapter of the *Brihad Saṃhita* (Part II., Chapter II.) deals with royal forehead plates. They are doubtless also referred to in the *Vaijayantaya*, the *śastra* used by Sinhalese jewellers. In this work are described the sixty-four kinds of royal ornaments and many other kinds of jewellery and metal work, as in the verse quoted above (p. 208) detailing the measurements of writing styles. The translation of this work, which Mudaliyār E. R. Goonaratne kindly undertook to prepare for me, is unfortunately not available at the time of writing the present chapter.