RADA-BADDARA-RAJAKARIYA: Dhoby service. It consists of washing weekly or monthly the soiled clothes of a family, the robes, curtains, flags, and vestments of a Temple; decorating temples with viyan (ceilings) for festivals and pinkam, and private houses on occasions of weddings, Yak or Bali ceremonies, and arrival of distinguished visitors; the supplying on such occasions of “Piruwata” for wearing, “etirili” or covers for seats, tables etc., “piyawili” or carpets, and “diyaredi” or bathing dresses; the making of “pandam” torches and “panweti” wicks and the supplying of “dambu” tow. The “Heneya” (dhobi) has also to attend his master on journeys carrying his bundle of clothes and bathing requisites. He supplies the Kapurala and Yakdessa with piruwata, the former weekly when on duty at a Dewale and the latter for dancing at festivals. He gives piruwata for the Muttettu, for serving out the food, for penum-kat and tel-kat as covers, and for the state elephant during festivals. The penuma he presents consists generally of a piece of wearing apparel or of a “sudu-toppiya” (Kandyan hat) or in some cases of Panaleli (horns for combs.) His prerequisites vary according to the occasion calling forth his services. Thus at the Sinhalese new year besides the quota of sweetmeats and rice given on such an occasion every member of the family ties up a coin in the cloth he delivers to him for washing. At “kotahalu” (occasion) of a female attaining puberty, festivities the dhoby is entitled to the cloth worn by the young woman and to her head ornaments, and at a funeral to all the clothes not allowed to be burnt on the pyre.
RADAYA: A washerman of an inferior grade.
RADALA: A chief, an officer of rank.
RAHUBADDA: A general term for small temples or dependencies of the Kandy Pattini Dewale. It is sometimes used of a kind of dancers. It is also sometimes taken as one of the nine “Nawabadda” the nine trades, which are, possibly, the following, but it is difficult to find any two Kandyans who give precisely the same list: 1, Kottal, smiths; 2, Badahela, potters; 3, Hakuru, jaggery makers; 4, Hunu, lime burners; 5, Hulanbadde, or Madige, tavalam-drivers, who are always Moors; 6, Rada, dhobies; 7, Berawa tom-tom-beaters; 8, Kinnaru, weavers; 9, Henda or Rodi, Rodiyas.
RAJAHELIYABEMA: The distribution of rice boiled at a Dewale at the close of the Perehera, among the servitors who took part in the ceremonies.
RAJAKARIYA: Service to the king. The word is now used indiscriminately for services done to a temple or Nindagam proprietors, or for the duties of an office.
RAMBATORANA: An arch in which plantain trees form the chief decoration.
RAN-AWUDA: The golden sword, bow, and arrows etc., belonging to a Dewale. The insignia of a Deviyo.
RANDOLIYA: A royal palanquin, the palanquin in which the insignia are taken in procession during the Maha Perehera.
RANHILIGE: The royal howdah in which the insignia are taken in processions on the back of an elephant.