PETAWILIKARAYA: A tavalan driver. It is the Moor tenants who perform this service.
PETHETIYA: A vessel for measuring an hour. A small cup of brass or silver, or sometimes a cocoanut shell, having a small hole in the bottom, is put to float in a basin of water, the hole is made of such a size that the water which comes through it will be exactly sufficient to make the cup sink in the space of a Sinhalese hour or peya, equal to twenty-five minutes or one-sixtieth part of a day.
PETMAN: Foot-paths. They are to be kept free of jungle by the tenants, with whom it is a principal duty.
PILIMAGEYA: Image-repository, the chamber in Wihare for images.
PILLEWA: A bit of high land adjoining a field, called also “Wanata”.
PINBERA: The beating of tom-tom, not on service but for merit at pinkam at the poya days, or after an almsgiving.
PINKAMA: In a general sense, any deed of merit, but more particularly used for the installing of priests in “Was” in the four months of the rainy season (July to November) for the public reading of Bana.
PIRIWEHIKADA: A pingo made up of “piriwehi” wicker baskets filled with provisions or other articles.
PIRUWATAYA: A cloth, towel, sheet etc., supplied by the dhobi and returned after use.
PITAKATTALAYA: The exterior of a Dewale or the portion outside the sanctuary. It is also a term applied to all the classes of tenants whose services are connected with the exterior of a Dewale, as distinguished from the Etul-kattale, tenants or servants of the sanctuary.