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band stand out from alternate faces full-blown lotus] knops, 5 in. 

 in circumference, with ornamentation resembling much the Tudor 

 flower upon the intervening sides. Where the pillar becomes 

 square there are further loops of pearls, four on each side. A 

 lower capital of ogee moulding, separated by narrow horizontal 

 fillets, and finished with ovolos and a rectangular band, is sur- 

 mounted by a four-faced makara and a low abacus. Fcom the 

 centre of the roundlet moulding on all four sides drops the 

 garlanded chakra symbol." 



Other noteworthy stone carvings in this gallery are the .Janitoi" 

 Stones from Hanguranketa presented by 0. H. de Soy sa. Esq ., placed 

 before and behind the cement base upon which the Yapahu 

 window now stands ; a mystic square stone called yailtra-g'al, with 

 twenty-five holes, from Anuradhapura, supposed to be a base stone 

 sometimes called a yogi stone (cf. H. C. P. Bell, Seventh Report on 

 Anuradhapura, Sessional Papers, 1896, p. 13) ; the Nag'a Stone from 

 Anuradhapura, mounted against the east wall, portraying a large 

 seven-headed cobra in high relief ; friezes from Horana ; figures 

 of Ganesa, the elephant-god, from Horana, presented by Sir C. P. 

 Layard ; marble statue of Buddha from Tissamaharama, presented 

 by Sir C. P. Layard ; friezes and capitals from Anuradhapura ; 

 statue of Buddha in spongy gneiss from Ambagamuwa, presented 

 by Hon. Mr. R. B. Downall (against the west wall) ; cast of the 

 gigantic statue of Parakrama Bahu the Great at Polonnaruwa ; cast 

 of a remarkable Processional Moonstone from Anuradhapura 

 (below the south window). The moonstones, perhaps so called in 

 consequence of their semilunar shape, are employed as steps leading 

 into the porticos of the temples. They are often of fine design 

 and execution, and are characteristic of Sinhalese Buddhist 

 architecture. In the cast exhibited here there is a central lotus 

 flower surrounded by concentric processions of hansas and other 

 animals. In front of the stone lion there is another simple 

 Lotus Moonstone from Hanguranketa, presented in 1878 by 

 C. H. de Soysa, Esq. 



Attention may now be directed to the four wall cases in this 

 room, three of which contain ethnographical models, and the 

 fourth a valuable collection of ancient bronzes. 



CASE XXI. 

 Models of a Kandyan Chief or Ratemahatmaya and of a Buddhist 

 priest with begging bowl ; a temple tapestry hangs at the back of 

 the case. 



CASE XXII. 



A Low-country Chief or Mudaliyar and a Sinhalese bride. 



