NOTES ON KANDYAN ART, 39 
NOTES ON KANDYAN ART. 
By Ananpa K. Coomaraswamy, D.Sc. 
(With two Plates.) 
CHANK IN THE MusEuMm at Kanpy. 
4 ea Kandy Museum has lately acquired a very beautiful chank, 
mounted in damascened brass, and comparable with the fine 
specimen which is figured in ‘‘ Medizeval Sinhalese Art,’’ Pl. XLI., I. 
As in that case, the termination is in the form of a serapendiya head, 
and a continuation of the metal work runs round the mouth of the 
chank. The foliar scrolls proceeding from the animal’s mouth are 
partly broken. The chank itself is plain, and not inlaid as in the 
other example. Like the other, it comes from Uda Nuwara ; in this 
case, from the Dewale at Lankatilaka. The other example was given 
by Narendra Sinha to a Dewale at Eldeniya (or Aludeniya ?), and 
it may be assumed that this specimen also is at least as old as the 
earlier part of the eighteenth century. It measures 102 inches in 
full length. 
CARVED PowDER Horn. 
Mr. A. B. Casse Lebbe possesses a very fine carved Kandyan 
powder horn. The material is buffalo horn, and the delicate carving 
a fine example of liya pata work. 
WEIGHT OF A STOCK-DRILL. 
When last in Ceylon I obtained a beautifully carved stock-drill 
(torapanaya) weight, elaborately carved in serpentine. This 
material is probably derived from the exposure near Ragalla, which 
was examined by Mr. Parsons, and is described in the Administra- 
tion Report of the Mineralogical Survey for 1906. It is interesting 
to note that the carved weight shows signs of local abrasion, where 
it has evidently been rubbed down in recent times for medicinal 
purposes, as described in the report referred to. 
Seen from above, the weight has a pentagonal section ; there is a 
ring of pala peti ornament round the bore, and below this are the 
five angular ornaments of naga bandha form ; below this again is a 
simpler form of pala peti, followed by several delicate mouldings. 
The total height of the weight is 3} in., the diameter of the 
bore is ? in. above and { in. below. Other illustrations of 
