Страница - 11Страница - 13CHAP. VI.
ENGINEERING.
- Engineering taught by the Brahmans [464]
- Rude methods of labour [464]
- Military engineering unknown [465]
- Early attempts at fortification [465]
- Fortified rock of Sigiri [465]
- Forests, their real security [466]
- Thorns planted as defences [466]
- Bridges and ferries [466]
- Method of tying cut stone in forming tanks [467]
- Tank sluices [467]
- Defective construction of these reservoirs [467]
- The art of engineering lost [468]
- The "Giants' Tank" a failure [468]
- An aqueduct formed, A.D. 66 [469]
CHAP. VII.
THE FINE ARTS.
- Music, its early cultivation [470]
- Harsh character of Singhalese music [470]
- Tom-toms, their variety and antiquity [471]
- Singhalese gamut [472]
- Painting.—Imagination discouraged [472]
- Similarity of Singhalese to Egyptian art [472]
- Rigid rules for religious design [473]
- Similar trammels on art in Modern Greece (note)
[473]
- And in Italy in the 15th century (n.) [474]
- Celebrated Singhalese painters [475]
- Sculpture.—Statues of Buddha [475]
- Built statues [477]
- Painted statues [477]
- Statues formed of gems [477]
- Ivory and sandal-wood carved [477]
- Architecture, its ruins exclusively religious [478]
- Domestic architecture mean at all times [478]
- Stone quarried by wedges [478]
- Immense slabs thus prepared [479]
- Columns at Anarajapoora [479]
- Materials for building [479]
- Mode of constructing a dagoba [480]
- Enormous dimensions of these structures [480]
- Monasteries and wiharas [481]
- Palaces [482]
- Carvings in stone [483]
- Ubiquity of the honours shown to goose [484]
- Delicate outline of Singhalese carvings [488]
- Temples and their decorations [488]
- Cave temples of Ceylon [489]
- The Alu-wihara [489]
- Moulding in plaster [489]
- Claim of the Singhalese to the invention of oil painting
[490]
- Lacquer ware of the present day [490]
- Honey-suckle ornament [491]
CHAP. VIII.
SOCIAL LIFE.
- Ancient cities and their organisation [493]
- Public buildings, hospitals, shops [493]
- Anarajapoora, as it appeared in 7th century [493]
- The description of it by Fa Hian [495]
- Carriages and Horses [495]
- Horses imported from Persia [495]
- Furniture of the houses [496]
- Form of Government.—Revenue [497]
- The Army and Navy [498]
- Mode of recruiting [499]
- Arms.—Bows [499]
- Singular mode of drawing the bow with the foot (note)
[499]
- Civil Justice [500]
CHAP. IX.