TELGEDI: Ripe or dry cocoanuts to express oil from.
TEMMETTAMA: A kettle-drum. One of the five musical instruments of a temple.
TEMMETTANKARAYA: A tenant playing on the Temmettama and belonging to the tom-tom beater caste. His service is in requisition for the daily services of a temple at its festivals, perehera, and pinkama and when the incumbent proceeds on journeys of importance such as ordinations, visits to the prior, and pinkam duties. Under a lay proprietor, the Temmettankaraya attends at weddings, Yak and Bali ceremonies, funerals, and on journeys on state occasions. He occasionally assists in agricultural and building works, and presents a penuma of a towel or piece of cloth with betel. At the four festivals in temples he takes a part in all the preparations and decorations.
TETAMATTUWA: A towel or piece of cloth to rub the body dry after a bath, which it is the service of the dhoby to supply.
TETIYA: A metal dish used for the purposes of a plate.
TEWAWA: The daily service of a Dewale, morning, noon, and evening, when muruten is offered.
TITTAYAN: A kind of small fresh-water fish having bitter taste. It is dried and given with other articles as penum.
TORANA: An ornamental arch put up on public and festive occasions.
TUPPOTTIYA: A cloth of ten yards worn round the waist. The ordinary wearing cloth of a Kandyan.
TUTTUWA: A pice, equal sometimes to 3/8d. sometimes one half-penny; when it contains four challies it is called the "Mahatuttuwa."
TUWAYA-TUNDAMA: A towel given by the tom-tom beater tenants as a penuma.
UDAHALLA: A hanging basket of wicker-work.
UDAKKIYA: A small kind of drum carried in the hand and used to play for dance music. Its use is not restricted to any caste.
UDUWIYANA: A canopy held over the muruten in the daily service of a Dewale, or over the insignia at processions, or over any sacred thing taken in procession, such as Alutsal, Nanu, Bana books, Relics, etc. The word also means ceilings put up by the dhoby.
UGAPATA: Vegetables, jaggery, or kitul-peni etc., wrapped up in leaves, generally in the sheath of the arecanut branch. Six ugapat make a kada, or pingo-load.
ULIYAMWASAMA: The holding of land by the Uliyamwasam tenants who perform all kinds of menial service. The same as Nilawasam q. v.