[2] The title of a superior chief in the Low-country, equivalent to the Raṭēmahatmayā of the Kandians. [↑]

[3] Baeri-welā tiyenawā. [↑]

[4] That is, the spaces in the stick walls were merely closed with leafy twigs. [↑]

[5] Jātiya-jammē. [↑]

[6] Talattāeni minissu. [↑]

[7] Kāsi aettek, wan̥sādipotiyek. [↑]

[8] Narakātiyak. [↑]

No. 236

How the Beggar and the King gambled