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UDAHALLA: A hanging basket of wicker-work.
UDAKKIYA: A small kind of drum carried in the hand and used to play for dance music. Its use is not restricted to any caste.
UDUWIYANA: A canopy held over the muruten in the daily service of a Dewale, or over the insignia at processions, or over any sacred thing taken in procession, such as Alutsal, Nanu, Bana books, Relics, etc. The word also means ceilings put up by the dhoby.
UGAPATA: Vegetables, jaggery, or kitul-peni etc., wrapped up in leaves, generally in the sheath of the arecanut branch. Six ugapat make a kada, or pingo-load.
ULIYAMWASAMA: The holding of land by the Uliyamwasam tenants who perform all kinds of menial service. The same as Nilawasam q. v.
UL-UDE: Trousers worn by dancers.
UNDIYARALA: A Dewala messenger.
UNDUWAPMASA: The ninth month of the Sinhalese year (December-January).
UPASAKARALA: Persons devoted to religious exercises.
UPASAMPADAWA: The highest order of Buddhist priests. The ceremony of admission into the order.
USNAYA: A smith’s forge. The same as idinna. q.v.
UYANWATTA: A park, a garden. The principal garden attached to a temple or to the estate of a proprietor, the planting, watching, gathering and removing the produce of which forms one of the principal services of tenants.