Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c38.49

c38.49

“Salutation I give to Viśvakarma, the fair and great, far famed and wisdom-freed, who hath five tilaka-marked faces, ten arms, holding a book and writing style, . . . . an adze (lit. a club), a citron, . . . a water-pot, . . . a rosary, wearing a cobra tied (about his neck), with hands betokening sternness and beneficence,* and wearing a golden sacred thread.”