LEGUNGE: The dormitory. A priest’s cell.
LENSUWA: A handkerchief.
LEKAMA: A writer. A clerk, out of courtesy styled Mohottala.
LEKAM PANGUWA: The tenement held by the Lekam pangu tenants. The panguwa was originally Maruwena, but in course of time, in most instances, it has become Paraveni. The Lekam tenant besides doing duty as writer to the proprietor of Ninda villages superintends his working parties and harvesting operations and appears before him at the annual presentations of the tenants, accompanies him on important journeys, attends on him and supplies him with medicines when sick, and occasionally guards the house in his absence. In temple villages where there is no resident Vidane, the Lekama does all the duties of that officer, besides keeping an account of the things received into and issued out of the Gabadawa, arranges and superintends all the services of the tenants, in which capacity it is that he is styled Mohottala.
LIYADDA: The bed of a field. A terrace.
LIYANABATA: Food given by a cultivator to tho Lekam on duty at a threshing floor.
LIYANARALA: A Writer.
LIYAWEL: Ornamental flower work in carvings or paintings generally found in Wihare and which it is the duty of the Sittaru (painters) to keep in order. The service is valuable and large and valuable pangu have consequently been allotted to this class. The cost of the pigments is borne by the temples.
LUNUKAHAMIRIS: Salt, saffron, and chillies. The three principal ingredients which give flavour to a curry. Hence in enumerating the articles which make up a pehinduma or dankada, mention is always made of Lunukahamiris or Sarakku or Tunapahe, general terms for “curry-stuff”.