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TADUPPUREDDA: Country-made cloth of coarse texture, which forms with the tenants of the tom-tom beater caste their annual penuma to the proprietor.

TAHANCHIKADA OR TAHANDIKADA: A ponumkada given to a Dissawa. A term in use in the Kegalle District.

TALA: Sesamum.

TALA-ATU-MUTTUWA: Two talipots sown together and ornamented. It is used as an umbrella, and on journeys of the proprietor it is carried by the proper tenant, generally of the Atapattu class.

TALAM-GEHIMA: To play with the “Taliya” cymbals as an accompaniment to the tom-tom.

TALATTANIYA: An elder in a village.

TALIGEDIYA: A large earthen-ware pot.

TALIMANA: Blacksmith’s apparatus for a pair of bellows generally made of wood, sunk in the ground and covered with elk-hide.

TALIYA OR TALAMA: A kind of cymbal.

TALKOLA-PIHIYE: A small knife with a stylus to write with.

TAMBALA: A creeper, the leaves of which are used with betel.

TAMBORUWA: A tambourine.

TANAYAMA: A rest-house. A lodging put up on the occasion of the visit of a proprietor or person of rank to a village.

TANGAMA: Half a ridi, equal to one groat or four-pence.

TANTUWAWA: Any ceremony such as a wedding, a devil-dance, a funeral, etc.

TATUKOLA: Pieces of plantain leaves used as plates. The same as Patkola q. v.

TATTUMARUWA: The possession of a field in turns of years; a system leading often to great complications e. g., a field belongs to A and B in equal shares, and they possess it in alternate years. They die and leave it to two sons of A, and three sons of B. These again hold in Tattumaru (A1, A2) (B1, B2, B3,). In fourteen years the possession is A1, B1, A2, B2, A1, B3, A2, B1, A1, B2, A2, B3, A1, B1, and so on. A1 leaves two sons, A2 lives, B1 has three sons, B2 has four sons and B3 has five. A2 gets his turn after intervals of four years, but A1a and B1b have to divide A1’s turn. Each therefore gets his turn after intervals of eight years, but each of the B shareholders gets his turn at intervals of six years and B1a, B1b, B1c now have a turn each at intervals of eighteen years, B2a, B2b, B2c, B2d, at intervals of twenty-four years, B3e at intervals of thirty years, as in the following table:—

1A1a11A221A1b
2B1a12B3b22B2d
3A213A1b23A2
4B2a14B1c24B3d
5A1b15A225A1a
6B3a16B2c26B1b
7A217A1a27A2
8B1b18B3c28B2a
9A1a19A229A1b
10B2b20B1a30B3e

TAWALAMA: Pack-bullock.

TELGEDI: Ripe or dry cocoanuts to express oil from.

TEMMETTAMA: A kettle-drum. One of the five musical instruments of a temple.

TEMMETTANKARAYA: A tenant playing on the Temmettama and belonging to the tom-tom beater caste. His service is in requisition for the daily services of a temple at its festivals, perehera, and pinkama and when the incumbent proceeds on journeys of importance such as ordinations, visits to the prior, and pinkam duties. Under a lay proprietor, the Temmettankaraya attends at weddings, Yak and Bali ceremonies, funerals, and on journeys on state occasions. He occasionally assists in agricultural and building works, and presents a penuma of a towel or piece of cloth with betel. At the four festivals in temples he takes a part in all the preparations and decorations.

TETAMATTUWA: A towel or piece of cloth to rub the body dry after a bath, which it is the service of the dhoby to supply.

TETIYA: A metal dish used for the purposes of a plate.

TEWAWA: The daily service of a Dewale, morning, noon, and evening, when muruten is offered.

TIRALANU: Cords for curtains.

TIRAPILI: Curtains.

TITTAYAN: A kind of small fresh-water fish having bitter taste. It is dried and given with other articles as penum.

TORANA: An ornamental arch put up on public and festive occasions.

TUPPOTTIYA: A cloth of ten yards worn round the waist. The ordinary wearing cloth of a Kandyan.

TUTTUWA: A pice, equal sometimes to 3/8d. sometimes one half-penny; when it contains four challies it is called the “Mahatuttuwa.”

TUWAYA-TUNDAMA: A towel given by the tom-tom beater tenants as a penuma.