UNDUWAPMASA: The ninth month of the Sinhalese year (December-January).
UPASAKARALA: Persons devoted to religious exercises.
UPASAMPADAWA: The highest order of Buddhist priests. The ceremony of admission into the order.
USNAYA: A smith's forge. The same as idinna. q.v.
UYANWATTA: A park, a garden. The principal garden attached to a temple or to the estate of a proprietor, the planting, watching, gathering and removing the produce of which forms one of the principal services of tenants.
WADANATALAATTA: A richly ornamented talipot. In ancient times its use was restricted to the court of the king and to temples; but now it is used by the upper classes on public occasions, being carried by the Atapattu tenants. The same as Kumaratalatta. q.v.
WAHALKADA: The porch before a temple or court.
WAHUNPURAYA: A tenant of the jaggery caste, which supplies the upper classes with domestic servants, chiefly cooks. This class has to accompany the proprietor on journeys and carry the palanquin of female members of the proprietor's family. When not engaged as domestics the Wahumpurapangu tenants supply jaggery and kitul-peni. They likewise supply vegetables, attend agricultural work and carry baggage.
WAJJANKARAYA: A tom-tom-beater. A general term for a temple musician. The five wajjan of which a regular Hewisia is made up are: 1, the Dawula (the common drum); 2, the Temettama (kettle-drum) 3, the Boraya (drum longer than a Dawula) 4, the Taliya (cymbals) and 5, the Horanewa (the trumpet.)
WADUPASRIYANGE: The same as "Anamestraya."
WAKMASE OR WAPMASE: The seventh month of the Sinhalese year (Oct. Nov.)
WALANKADA: A pingo of pottery, usually ten or twelve in number, supplied by the potter as a part of his service, either as a penumkada or as the complement of chatties he has to give at festivals, etc.
WALAWWA: A respectful term for the residence of a person of rank. The manor-house.
WALIYAKUMA: Called also "Wediyakuma." The devil-dance after a Diyakepuma. See "Hiro hinetima."
WALLAKOTU: Sticks, the bark or twigs of which are used in place of string. It is supplied by tenants for Yak or Bali ceremonies.
WALLIMALE: A poem containing the legends of Valliamma, the wife of Kataragama.
WALUMALGOBA: The cluster of young fruit the flower and the sprout (tender branch) of the cocoanut tree used in decorations, and supplied by tenants.