Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c27.5

c27.5

Embroidery to give two *piruvaṭa*, one for the *mulṭen-ge* and the other for the Kapurāla ; for the *perahera* to make up for the two Kapurālas two hats and two jackets and to supply them with one *piruvaṭa* each ; to give *piruvaṭa* for the people who carry the *randoli*; for the *perahera* to put up a *viyana* at the *dēvāle*; to spread *piyavili* and supply *dambu*; when the Basnāyaka Nilame visits the *dēvāle* to prepare lodgings; to wash the *tira*, *haḷu*, and other cloths of the *dēvāle*; at the *perahera* to present a *toppiya* to the Basnāyaka Nilame.” At Mivatura, a dhoby tenant held an acre of field. His services (commutable for Rs. 11·70) were: to wash curtains, hangings, and sacred napkins during two consecutive months, receiving food and two seers raw rice for starch and sixpence to buy blue and soap; to spread cloths supplied by temple at the elephant shed for the festivals and ten days of *perahera*; to present to the Diva Nilame a Kandyan hat (Lawrie’s Gazetteer, pp. 660, 600).