Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c35.114

c35.114

Pedura, pl. peduru, grass or leaf mat, 244: designs, Fig. 143. Peduru-āna, mat-rack, 244. Pehindum-kada, pl. -kat, yoke-load of provisions, 24, 26. Pekadaya, lotus bracket-capital, 96, 117, 129, 130; Fig. 97; Pls. VII., 4, X., 3-5. Pelava, a village in the C.P., 180. Pelēna, a village in the C.P., 180. Penuma, tenant’s customary gift, 24, 25, 26, 194, 195, 219: weaver’s, 232. Penum-kada, yoke load of customary gifts, 24, 25, 26: -valan, yoke load of earthen vessels, penuma of potter, 25. Pepiliyāna, 172. Pērādeniya, nr. Kandy, 180: Rubber Exhibition, 1906, 145. Perahera, annual festival and procession of dēvāles, and in Kandy, of the dēvāles and the Daladā Māligāva, 6, 25, 37, 38, 39, 85, 120, 165, 188, 204, 205, 208, 238. Peralum pata, var. of liya pata, 101. Percival, Robert, 264. Peres valalla, hollow ivory ring with relics, slipped over bōralaya or mal-gaha on toppiya: peres muduva, kind of finger-ring. Pēsakaraya, caste, 21. Pē-tetiya, clepsydra, water-clock, 58, 205: v. also Service Tenures Comm. Rep., 1872, p. 516. Peti-malaya, ‘petal garland,’ 211; Pl. XLIX., 4, 12. Peti-pullorama, rasp, 142. Peya, an ‘hour’ of twenty-four minutes, 205. Phear, Sir J. B., 23. Philpot, J. H., 94. Picca mala (Jasminum sambac), jessamine, 94; Fig. 32; Pl. XIV., 5. Pidenna, offerings to gods, 71. Pieris, P. E., 10, 12, 27, 60, 213, 260. Pihiti Rata, one of the three ancient divisions of Ceylon, 9. Pila, verandah, 114, 234. Pilgrimage to Adam’s Peak, 44. Pili-heliya, earthen vessel with lid, used for storing cloths, 221; Pl. LII., 4: -vela, clothes line, 116.