HELAYA: A piece of cloth of twelve cubits.
HELIYA: A large round vessel with a wide mouth for boiling rice, paddy, etc.
HEMA-KADA: Food offering in a Dewala similar to the Ahara-pujawa at a Vihare. It is carried by the proper Kapurala, called Kattiyana-rala, pingo-fashion, and delivered at the door of the sanctuary to the officiating Kapurala.
HENDA-DURE: The evening hewisi (music) at a Dewale.
HENDUWA: Elephant-goad.
HEPPUWA: A box, a basket. The term is in use in the Kegalle District in connection with a penuma of sweetmeats called Kevili-heppuwa just as in other Districts it is called Kevili-pettiya.
HEWAMUDALA: Payment in lieu of the services of a tenant of the Hewasam or military class.
HEWAWASAMA: The tenement held by the Hewawasama. The military class. Their services at present are those of the Atapattuwasama and consist in carrying messages and letters etc., accompanying the proprietor on journeys, carrying his umbrella or talipot and keeping guard at halting places attending to the service of betel, guarding the proprietor’s house, watching threshing floors, attending at funerals and setting fire to the pyre. They present a penuma of sweetmeats and receive as funeral prerequisites a suit of clothes. Persons of their wasama, as those of the Ganwasama, are chosen for subordinate offices.
HEVENPEDURA: A mat made of a kind of rush.
HEWISI-MANDAPPAYA: The court where the Hewisi (music) is performed in a Vihare corresponding to the Digge in a Dewale.