SUWANDIRAMA: See Semennuma.
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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.