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usually ol the pattern shown above (though sometimes it is more 

 elaborate or has a double arch), is also called udilipatkanda. These 

 Kaiidyan terms, Iiowever, are beginning to be forgotten, and the 

 ordinary low-country word rdmuwa to take their place. 



The door handle is called kayipudiwalcdu, which by the way is a 

 Tamil word. The circular metal plate round it is called bokkdle 

 (a word which does not occur in Clough) ; the key is yaturumudda ; 

 the key plate munaitahaduira (in Clough) , and the iron bolt on the 

 outside, which has a lion's head, narissayatura or ndrassara. It is 

 unnecessary to enlarge on the artistic character of this metal work, 

 as everybody is familiar with it. 



The inner bolt is ayula, and the iron rod used to move it from 

 outside agultattuwa. The hole through which this is inserted is 

 kdppakafa, which is not in Clough and sounds like Tamil. 



The only difference between this door and a double docn" {depiyan- 

 doruwa) is that the latter is divided down the middle, and therefore 

 is rounded at the two sides and requires two sets of ivalaw. The bolt 

 is also, of course, different ; it is a double bolt in the centre of the 

 door, and keeps the two halves together (soe Plate III.). Both single 

 and double bolts and the knmuoa into which the former is set are 

 usually artistic in design. 



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Plate III. — Bolt of double door. The upper bolt is shown 



open, and the lower closed. One opens in one direction, 



and the other in the opposite. 



In a Kandyan building the horizontal beam that supports tlie 

 roof is called drwa (in Clough) , and the carved end of it (it always 

 has a carved end) dfwnffuliya. The transverse beams that rest on 

 these under the edge of the rough are called wadimhu (in Clough). 



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