HILDANE: The early morning meal of Buddhist priests, generally of rice-gruel.
HILEKAN: Registers of fields.
HIMILA: Money given by a proprietor as hire for buffaloes employed in ploughing and threshing crops.
HIRAMANAYA: A cocoanut scraper. It is an article of penuma with blacksmith tenants.
HIROHI-NETIMA: Called also Niroginetima. It is a dance at the procession returning from the Diyakepima of the Saragune Dewale in the Badulla District.
HITIMURAYA: The turn for being on guard at a temple or a chief’s house. It consists generally of fifteen days at a time, nights included. The tenant both on entering upon and on leaving his muraya, appears before the incumbent or chief with the penuma of a roll of betel, and when on mure has the charge of the place and its property, clears and sweeps the premises, attends to ordinary repairs, fetches flowers in temples and goes on messages. He receives food from the temple.
HIWEL: Coulters, the providing of which forms one of the services of a blacksmith tenant.
HIWEL-ANDE: Cultivators’ share of the produce of a field being half of the crop after deducting the various payments called “Waraweri” which are (1) Bittara-wi (seed-padi), as much as had been sown and half as much as interest; (2) Deyyanne-wi, 4 or 5 laha of paddy set apart for the Dewiyo, or boiled into rice and distributed in alms to the poor; (3) Adipalla, the lower layers of the stacked paddy; (4) Peldora, the ears of com round the watchhut which together with Adipalla are the watcher’s prerequisites (5) Yakunewi, paddy set apart for a devil ceremony. Besides the above, “Akyala” (first-fruits) is offered to the Deviyo for special protection to the crop from vermin, flies, etc.
HULAWALIYA: The headman of the Rodi. The Rodi tenants are very few in number and are found in but very few villages. They supply prepared leather for drums and ropes of hide halters, thongs and cords for cattle and bury carcases of dead animals found on the estate to which they belong.