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They keep guard, not at the Desave’s house, but at the Danda Maduwe, 
or building appropriated to the storing of the King’s timber in Kandy. 
They fell timbers in the forests for the King’s or the Desave’s service. 
Of late years they have been employed also in dragging or carrying 
timbers, but formerly it was not considered as their proper duty. 
They cut wall timbers and plane them, and thatch public buildings, or 
the Desave’s house. 
They carry the alkade, or small banners, of the desavony, in public pro- 
cessions, and when the Desave travels. 
They are not liable to the payment of hada rajakareya, or any other 
duties, to the King. , 
The Kodituwakku, or Ginjal people (artillery). 
They are people of the low caste, called Padawas, and reside only in four 
villages ; viz. Kadagamma and Hewadewala in the Kindigoda Korle ; Elagalla 
and Henapola in the Galboda Korie. 
The people of Kadagamma are under the orders of a Mohandiram, and of 
a head man of their own caste, called Duraya. 
The people of Hewadewala are under the orders of a Mohandiram, and 
of two head men of their own caste, called Maha Duraya and Hewa 
Duraya. 
The people of Elagalla and Henapola are jointly under the orders of a 
Mohandiram and a Duraya. 
They perform mura, or attend on constant duty at the Desave’s resi- 
dence, with their respective Mohandirams and Durayas, in rotation, accord- 
ing to the above three divisions, for the term of thirty days each, and the 
absentees pay two mura ridi, which are applied in the manner above stated. 
They keep guard at the building called Koditawakka Madawe, where 
the ginjals of the desavony are kept, and have custody of the more atrocious 
prisoners who are committed to them. 
They are sometimes sent into the country to seize criminals and refrac- 
tory persons ; to carry ginjals before the Desave when he travels, and on 
all public occasions. 
They dig and carry earth and stones, provide medicinal herbs when 
required from the jungle, and perform other menial labour for the King’s 
or the Desave’s service; but neither fell nor drag timbers, nor furnish fire- 
wood or water for his household. 
Vou. III., 2E 
