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Originally Posted by Prasanna Weerakkody
...I am including an image from a frieze in Ridi-vihara depicting gladiators fighting with these swords...
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Amazing!
See how a Portuguese has depicted the Chingalas* in the XVI century ... pass his naíve trace and artist's freedom.
(Watercolours belonging to the Casanatense Codice, from which i have both a basic and a de luxe reproduction ... both full of support articles and chronicles).
* or Chingalás; how the Portuguese called the Sinhalese in those days.
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