Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c35.5

c35.5

Ambalaṅgoḍa, on W. coast of Ceylon, pattern of plaited bag, Fig. 144. *Ambaraṇa yatura*, ratchet lock, 196: key-plate of, Fig. 106. Ambepussa, a village, 180. Ambulugala, a village in the Kēgalla Dist., Sab., 145. Ambuluva, a village in the C.P., site of a guard-house, 120. *Amkeliya*, game of ‘horn pulling,’ 6, 37. Amphorae, earthen jars with two handles, ? indigenous, 228. Ampiṭiya, a village nr. Kandy, 117. *Amu karala*, an ear of *amu*, corn, 241. Amulets, 210. *Amuṇa*, pl. *amuṇu*, a measure of paddy, about five or six bushels, 75: as much ground as this will sow, about 2½ acres, 194. Amuṇugama, a hamlet of Degaldoruva, C.P., 77. Ānanda, favourite disciple of Buddha, images of, 148, 173. Anaṅga, the Bodiless One, Hindu God of Love, 91. Ananta, a mythical Nāga (cobra) king, 88. *Aṇḍe*, half-share (cultivation), 27. *Aṇḍina-kaṇḍa*, thread-beam of a mat-weaver's loom, 243: *-lanuva*, cord for turning a lathe, 187. F. H. Andrews, on ivories, (91), 184. *Ānamestra-gē*, *ānamestraya*, booth for lights during temple festivals, 76. *Aṅdun-vala*, the part beneath the eye darkened with antimony, unguent-spot, 155. *Aṅgala*, pl. *aṅgal*, lit. finger; inch, unit, in craftsman measure, 1¾ English inch, 113, 142, 152 seq., 208. Aṅgalmaḍuva, nr. Tangalla on the S. coast of Ceylon, lac-work of, 215, 217. Animism, 46; v. also folk-lore. Anklet, of Pattini, 6. Aṅkumbura, a village in the C.P., 180. *Aṅkusa*, elephant driver's goad (said to be fashioned after the claw of the *eṭ-kanda-lihiniya*, q.v.), 195; Pl. I.: v. also *heṇḍuva*. *Anna paḍci* (T.), sacred goose, *haṃsaya*, 86; Fig. 21.