DADAKUDAMAS: A compound word for meat and fish.
DAGOBE OR DAGEBA: Lit. Relic chamber. A Buddhist mound or stupa of earth or brick sometimes faced with stone, containing generally a chamber in which is preserved a casket of relics.
DALUMURE: A turn to supply betel for a temple or proprietor.
DALUMURA-PANGUWA: The holding of tenants, whose special service is that of supplying weekly or fortnightly, and at the festivals, a certain quantity of betel leaves for the “dalumura-tewawa” immediately after the multen or “ahara-pujawa” and for the consumption by the officers or priests on duty. This service was one of great importance at the Court of the King, who had plantations of betel in different parts of the country, with a staff of officers, gardeners, and carriers. At present the tenants of this class in Ninda villages supply betel to the proprietor for consumption at his house and on journeys. In some service villages the betel is to be accompanied with a quantity of arecanuts.
DALUPATHKARAYA: A sub-tenant; a garden tenant; one who has asweddumised land belonging to a mulpangukaraya. In some Districts the dalupathkaraya is called pelkaraya.
DAMBU: Tow; rags for lights. The supplying of dambu at festivals in a temple or for a Bali ceremony at a chief’s house forms one of the principal services of a dhobi.
DAN-ADUKKUWA: Food given by a tenant of a vihare land to the incumbent as distinguished from “dane” given to any priest for the sake of merit.
DANDUMADUWA: A timber-shed; a timber room. Every temple establishment has an open long shed for timber and building materials etc., and its upkeep forms one of the duties of the tenants.
DANE: Food given to priests for merit; alms: charity.
DANGE: Kitchen of a Pansale.