Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c35.82

c35.82

Jagadeka Mātā, ‘The One Mother of the World,’ description in Rūpāvaliya, 112. Jagalat toppiya, a kind of hat, 36, 72. Jaggery (hakuru, palm sugar), wooden moulds for, 140. Jak (kos, Artocarpus integrifolia, L.) used as a yellow dye for priests’ robes, 245. Jala kindurā, merman, mermaid, 82. Jambuddoṇi = Dambadeṇiya, q.v. Jamna, one of the Seven Sacred Rivers of India, 74. Janavamsaya, ‘History of Mankind,’ an anonymous work in Sinhalese, probably composed in the fifteenth century, describing the origin of the universe and its inhabitants, and the gradual formation of the various castes. List of castes, 21, 22: classification of craftsmen, 54: origin of weavers, 232: importation of Indian craftsmen, 232, 254. Japanese peacock motif in modern Kandyan brass work, 202. Jarā-ves-arinava, to restore or re-decorate a building, 70. Jataka, Jatakas, v. Jatakaya. Jatakaya, a story of a previous incarnation of the Buddha, whilst still a Bōdhisattva, represented at the Ruvanvęli Dāgaba, second century B.C., 5, 177: represented at the Daḷadā Māligavā in the reign of Narēndra Simha, 11: sung by women spinning, 235: ignorance of, illustrating aloofness of foreign rulers, 17: paintings of, in various vihāras, 42, 43, 116, n., 138, 167-169, 173, 177. Jatakaya, Asadisa, translated into Sinhalese by Śrī Rājādhi Rāja Simha, 13: Bhadda Śala, quoted 121, 122: Caṇḍa Kinnara (Saṇḍa Kindurā), described, 81, 82; Fig. 11; Pl. VIIA: Chadanta, described, 183: Daham Soṇḍa (=Sasa J.), 89, 90, 180: Guttila, 11: Kusa, reference to a golden image, 258: Kusanāli, quoted, 121: Magamāna, 235: Makha Dēva, 31, 235: Sasa, 89, 90, 180: Sattubhatta, 167: Silava, 168: Takkāriya, 82: Sutasōma, 116, n., 123, 168, 267: Ummagga, 11, 235: Vessantara, 5, 11, 167, described, 41, 42, 235; Fig. 2; Pl. I.: Vidhura, 11, 35.