TALIMANA: Blacksmith’s apparatus for a pair of bellows generally made of wood, sunk in the ground and covered with elk-hide.
TALIYA OR TALAMA: A kind of cymbal.
TALKOLA-PIHIYE: A small knife with a stylus to write with.
TAMBALA: A creeper, the leaves of which are used with betel.
TAMBORUWA: A tambourine.
TANAYAMA: A rest-house. A lodging put up on the occasion of the visit of a proprietor or person of rank to a village.
TANGAMA: Half a ridi, equal to one groat or four-pence.
TANTUWAWA: Any ceremony such as a wedding, a devil-dance, a funeral, etc.
TATUKOLA: Pieces of plantain leaves used as plates. The same as Patkola q. v.
TATTUMARUWA: The possession of a field in turns of years; a system leading often to great complications e. g., a field belongs to A and B in equal shares, and they possess it in alternate years. They die and leave it to two sons of A, and three sons of B. These again hold in Tattumaru (A1, A2) (B1, B2, B3,). In fourteen years the possession is A1, B1, A2, B2, A1, B3, A2, B1, A1, B2, A2, B3, A1, B1, and so on. A1 leaves two sons, A2 lives, B1 has three sons, B2 has four sons and B3 has five. A2 gets his turn after intervals of four years, but A1a and B1b have to divide A1’s turn. Each therefore gets his turn after intervals of eight years, but each of the B shareholders gets his turn at intervals of six years and B1a, B1b, B1c now have a turn each at intervals of eighteen years, B2a, B2b, B2c, B2d, at intervals of twenty-four years, B3e at intervals of thirty years, as in the following table:—