Unknown2007-10-232007-10-232007-10-23https://hdl.handle.net/1813/8361The Mayimataya is a Sinhalese language work on housebuilding written by an unknown Sri Lankan author in 1837. It has become part of a modern language genre of housebuilding works circulated as inexpensive pamphlets or chapbooks throughout the South Asian culture area. The Mayimataya, like other works of its type, claims to be based on authoritative texts in Sanskrit. It contains 283 four lined verses.7770888 bytesapplication/pdfSouth Asia Architecture, domestic Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people), Sri Lanka