8 SPOLIA ZEYLANIOA. 
Other ecclesiastical earthenwares include lamps (pahan), chiefly 
the small plain shallow dishes for burning cocoanut oil with a cotton 
wick, and used in great quantities on festiveoccasions, being placed 
round the viharé or déwala compound in niches provided for the 
purpose in the walls. They are also set up on lampstands (pinkaiidu 
—Plate C, fig. 6, the two right hand pictures) or protected from the 
wind in a lantern or cage (pankiiduwa) seen in the same figure on 
the left. Occasionally very handsome and elaborately ornamented 
panka7idu are met with, bearing a larger lamp above with notches 
for three wicks. These tall stands are made in several pieces, 
fitting one on to the other, the whole tapering slightly towards 
the top. 
ARCHITECTURAL EARTHENWARE. 
Here we have chiefly to deal with tiles (w/w). The most character- 
istic and oldest type are flat. These tiles are of nearly oblong form, 
Text Fig. IL. 


KANDYAN RooFriING AND Coprne TILEs. 
I.-VI., Flat roofing tiles; VII., VIII., Plan and section of coping tile ; 
IX., Plan of semi-cylindrical coping tile. 
Scale of figs. I.-VIII., }cm.— 1 inch. Sefle of fig. TX., ,, inch. 
