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HAKDURE: A service of blowing the conch-shell or horn in the daily service of a Dewalaya.
HAKGEDIYA: A chank. A conch-shell.
HAKPALIHA: The carrying of the conch-shell and shield in procession which forms one of the services of the tenants of temple villages.
HAKURU-ESSA: A cake of jaggery. Half a “mula” (packet).
HAKURUKETAYA: A ball of jaggery. It is of no definite size.
HAKURUMULA: A packet of two cakes of jaggery.
HAKURUPATTAYA: Balls of jaggery wrapped up in the sheath of the branch of an arecanut tree.
HALUPAINDAYA: Officer in charge of the sacred vestments of a Dewale.
HAMBA: Paddy belonging to a temple of the king.
HAMBA-ATUWA: The granary belonging to a temple or the king.
HAMUDA-WALE-MURAYA: The mura by tenants of Pidawiligam under the Dalada Maligawa.
HANGIDIYA: A head-smith.
HANGALA: The piru-wataya (lent-cloth) given by dhobies to Kapuwo and Yakdesso.
HANNALIYA: A tailor; large Dewala and Wihara establishments have tenants to sew and stitch the sacred vestments, curtains, flags, etc., and to assist in decorating the car.
HARASKADAYA: A cross stick in an arch, supplied by tenants for decorations at festivals.
HATMALUWA: A curry made of seven kinds of vegetables and offered with rice at a Bali ceremony.
HATTIYA: A hat shaped talipot carried on journeys by female attendants of ladies, answering the double purpose of a hat and an umbrella.
HAYA-PEHINDUMA: Provisions given to a temple or person of rank, consisting of six neli (seru) of rice and condiments in proportion.
HELAYA: A piece of cloth of twelve cubits.
HELIYA: A large round vessel with a wide mouth for boiling rice, paddy, etc.
HEMA-KADA: Food offering in a Dewala similar to the Ahara-pujawa at a Vihare. It is carried by the proper Kapurala, called Kattiyana-rala, pingo-fashion, and delivered at the door of the sanctuary to the officiating Kapurala.
HENDA-DURE: The evening hewisi (music) at a Dewale.
HENDUWA: Elephant-goad.
HEPPUWA: A box, a basket. The term is in use in the Kegalle District in connection with a penuma of sweetmeats called Kevili-heppuwa just as in other Districts it is called Kevili-pettiya.
HEWAMUDALA: Payment in lieu of the services of a tenant of the Hewasam or military class.
HEWAWASAMA: The tenement held by the Hewawasama. The military class. Their services at present are those of the Atapattuwasama and consist in carrying messages and letters etc., accompanying the proprietor on journeys, carrying his umbrella or talipot and keeping guard at halting places attending to the service of betel, guarding the proprietor’s house, watching threshing floors, attending at funerals and setting fire to the pyre. They present a penuma of sweetmeats and receive as funeral prerequisites a suit of clothes. Persons of their wasama, as those of the Ganwasama, are chosen for subordinate offices.
HEVENPEDURA: A mat made of a kind of rush.
HEWISI-MANDAPPAYA: The court where the Hewisi (music) is performed in a Vihare corresponding to the Digge in a Dewale.
HILDANE: The early morning meal of Buddhist priests, generally of rice-gruel.
HILEKAN: Registers of fields.
HIMILA: Money given by a proprietor as hire for buffaloes employed in ploughing and threshing crops.
HIRAMANAYA: A cocoanut scraper. It is an article of penuma with blacksmith tenants.
HIROHI-NETIMA: Called also Niroginetima. It is a dance at the procession returning from the Diyakepima of the Saragune Dewale in the Badulla District.
HITIMURAYA: The turn for being on guard at a temple or a chief’s house. It consists generally of fifteen days at a time, nights included. The tenant both on entering upon and on leaving his muraya, appears before the incumbent or chief with the penuma of a roll of betel, and when on mure has the charge of the place and its property, clears and sweeps the premises, attends to ordinary repairs, fetches flowers in temples and goes on messages. He receives food from the temple.
HIWEL: Coulters, the providing of which forms one of the services of a blacksmith tenant.
HIWEL-ANDE: Cultivators’ share of the produce of a field being half of the crop after deducting the various payments called “Waraweri” which are (1) Bittara-wi (seed-padi), as much as had been sown and half as much as interest; (2) Deyyanne-wi, 4 or 5 laha of paddy set apart for the Dewiyo, or boiled into rice and distributed in alms to the poor; (3) Adipalla, the lower layers of the stacked paddy; (4) Peldora, the ears of com round the watchhut which together with Adipalla are the watcher’s prerequisites (5) Yakunewi, paddy set apart for a devil ceremony. Besides the above, “Akyala” (first-fruits) is offered to the Deviyo for special protection to the crop from vermin, flies, etc.
HULAWALIYA: The headman of the Rodi. The Rodi tenants are very few in number and are found in but very few villages. They supply prepared leather for drums and ropes of hide halters, thongs and cords for cattle and bury carcases of dead animals found on the estate to which they belong.