4 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The. Kundaséle Vihara has one Walandena Panguwa in Walala. 
‘Tenants: Panditagedara Komali. Services (commutable for 
Rs. 16°20): to supply for the four festivals eight pingos of earthenware, 
two for each festival, each pingo consists of two ‘ tali,’ two kalageddi, 
two koras, two némbili, two batwalan, three lokuappalla, six appalla- 
podi, one etiliya, and one dummala kabala ; for the Alutsal Mangalya 
to give four large muttt ; for the Katti Mangalya fifty kattipan ; for 
the Nanumura Maingalya two embul mutti ; after the new year to 
offer the incumbent six appallapodi and two pufchi mutti as a 
penuma.”’* 
These extracts will show the sort of work the potters did over and 
above what was required by themselves and the other villages for 
private use. 
The potter may be found at work in the verandah of his house 
(Plate A, figs. 1 and 3)f or sometimes in a separate shed wholly 
devoted to the work. 
The potter’s appliances are, as may be supposed, simple enough. 
His wheel (péruwa) is a circular board about 24 feet in diameter 
mounted on a stone pivot which fits into a larger stone socket em- 
bedded in the ground, the horizontal surface of the wheel itself stand- 
ing not more thansix inches above the ground. The wheelis turned 
by a boy (Plate A, fig. 1) who squats on the ground opposite the potter 
and keeps it going with his hands. A lump of clay is dumped on the 
wheel, enough for half a dozen or more pots, and they are moulded 
one by one under the potter’s hands, cut off, and set aside to dry. To 
finish off the rims, a strip of wet cotton is used ; with this the potter 
smooths off the edges as the wheel turns, and pressing through it 
with his nail, he makes the little mouldings at the top. As removed 
from the wheel the pots are bottomless and have to dry for a few 
hours or a day or two before they can be finished ; when they are 
ready the potter takes a smooth stone (Text fig. I.) in his left hand and 
a sort of wooden bat (walanta/ana lélla) in his right hand, and holding 
the stone inside the vessel he beats and pats its sides till finally they 
meet across the bottom ; the vessel is rubbed smooth with the bat. 

* Loc. cit., p. 495: “Tali,” plural of taliya, a dish or basin = usually 
metal, or téliya, a large pot or vessel of earthenware or metal, usually 
the latter; for kalagediya, koraha, némbiliya, batwalanda, &ec., see 
below. The Alutsdl Maigalya is the ceremony of fetching new rice ; 
the Katti Mazgalya is the presentation of robes, &c.; the Kattipdn 
appear to be the ordinary cocoanut oil lamps used on this occasion ; 
the Nénumura Mangalya is an occasion of ceremonial bathing, and the 
embul mutti are required to hold the lime juice, &c., used for washing 
the head ; penwma is an extra gift or perquisite. 
| The photographs are by Mrs. Coomaraswamy. - 
