DANKADA: Pingo of food given to a priest.
DARADIYARA: Fuel and water the supplying of which forms the service of the Uliyakkarawasam tenants.
DASILIKAMA: An assistant to a Lekama or writer. The term is peculiar to Sabaragamuwa.
DAWULA: The common drum.
DAWULKARAYA: A tenant of the tom-tom beater caste, playing on a dawula at the daily service of a Vihare or a Dewale, and at the festivals.
DAWUL-PANGUWA: The tenement held by tenants of the tom-tom beater caste. In temples their service comes under the kind called the Pita-kattale (out-door-service). At the daily tewawa, at festivals, at pinkam, and on journeys of the incumbent, they beat the hewisi (tom-toms). On their turn of duty in a temple, they have to watch the temple and its property, to sweep and clean the premises, to gather flowers for offerings, and to fetch bolpen (water for temple use). The services of a Hewisikaraya are required by a lay proprietor only occasionally for weddings, funerals, yak and bali ceremonies, and on state occasions. This class of persons is employed in weaving cloth, and their penuma consists of a taduppu cloth or lensuwa. In all respects the services of the Dawulkarayo resemble those of the Tammattankarayo, a portion of the same caste, but who beat the Tammattama instead of the Dawula.
DEHAT-ATA: A roll of betel leaves given to a priest. A respectful term for a quid of betel.
DEHET-GOTUWA: Betel wrapped up in the leaf of some tree.
DEKUMA: A present given to a chief or incumbent of a temple by a tenant when he makes his appearance annually or oftener, and consists of either money, or sweetmeats, or cloth, or arecanut-cutters, etc., according to the tenants trade or profession or according to his caste.
DELIPIHIYA: A razor. One of the “atapirikara” or eight priestly requisites viz., three robes an almsbowl, a needle case, a razor, a, girdle, and a filter.