BEMMA: A Wall, a bank, a bund.
BEHET-DIYA: A lotion made of lime juice and other acids mixed with perfumes for use at the Nanumura mangalyaya, when the priest washes the sacred reflection of the head of Buddha in a mirror held in front of the image for the purpose.
BETMERALA: The officer in charge of a number of villages belonging to a temple, corresponding to a Vidane, q.v.
BIN-ANDE: Ground share; Ground rent.
BINARAMASA: The sixth month of the Sinhalese year (September-October).
BINNEGUNWI: Paddy given as sustenance during ploughing time.
BISOKAPA: See Ehelagaha. It is a term in use in the Kabulumulle Pattini Dewale in Hatara Korale.
BISSA: A term in use in the Kegalle District for a granary round in shape, and of wickerwork daubed with mud.
BINTARAM-OTU: Tax or payment in kind, being a quantity of paddy, equal to the full extent sown, as distinguished from half and other proportionate parts of the sowing extent levied from unfertile fields. Thus in an amuna of land the bintaram-otu is one amuna paddy.
BODHIMALUWA: The Court round a bo-tree, called also Bomeda.