I should also like to emphasize the Act that a study of the early use of the words which later appear as established technical terms in the Rilpa-iastras is of great value for the study of archtectural history. [...] Utpala's definition of kapota-paliket quoted on p. 111 of the Dictionary amounting to " corbel-ended timbers above the kpota" is quite intelligible its these being seen end on and coming between the top of the kapola and the bottom of the next member above (as often represented in the early reliefs) are related to the kapota precisely as the abacus is related to the rest of the capital belo [...] The inclusion of the term in the Mtinasiira shows that the text cannot antedate the Gupta period. [...] KuNiika: should be equated with kammialu (not in the Dictionary) and explained as the water-pot carried by Brahmanical hermits and Buddhist monks and provided with two openings one a funnel at the side for filling the other at the top of the neck which is also the handle. [...] In Ceylon in the eighteenth century the use of such finials was permitted only in the case of devilles vihtires resthouses and the houses of chiefs of Disawa or higher rank.
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