UGAPATA: Vegetables, jaggery, or kitul-peni etc., wrapped up in leaves, generally in the sheath of the arecanut branch. Six ugapat make a kada, or pingo-load.
ULIYAMWASAMA: The holding of land by the Uliyamwasam tenants who perform all kinds of menial service. The same as Nilawasam q. v.
UL-UDE: Trousers worn by dancers.
UNDIYARALA: A Dewala messenger.
UNDUWAPMASA: The ninth month of the Sinhalese year (December-January).
UPASAKARALA: Persons devoted to religious exercises.
UPASAMPADAWA: The highest order of Buddhist priests. The ceremony of admission into the order.
USNAYA: A smith’s forge. The same as idinna. q.v.
UYANWATTA: A park, a garden. The principal garden attached to a temple or to the estate of a proprietor, the planting, watching, gathering and removing the produce of which forms one of the principal services of tenants.