Ambakke Devalaya

The Embekke Devalaya, near Kandy, is the standard example of Kandyan-period wood carving at its most elaborate: the drummers' hall (digge) is supported on wooden pillars each carved with a different design - dancers, wrestlers, mythical birds, double-headed eagles and swans among them - with almost no two columns repeating a motif.

What examiners tend to ask is not a full inventory of the carvings but a demonstration that you understand why it's significant: it's one of the finest surviving collections of Kandyan timber sculpture in one building, made valuable specifically by that variety and density of carving rather than by any single figure.