208 Sir Joun D’Oyrxy’s Sketch of the 
Mohandiram. 
The Kala Hewa Mohandiram people. 
They are all Padawas, disposed in different villages, and subject to the 
orders of a Mohandiram, and, under him, of a Duraya of their own caste. 
They attend on duty in Kandy once in three months, in rotation, with 
the two Bulgamwala Mohandiram Wasam people mentioned below, and 
serve three days at a time. 
They perform menial labour for the King’s or the Desave’s service, which 
chiefly consists in bringing and preparing the domestic materials for 
buildings. ‘ 
When the Desave is in his desavony they keep guard at a gravet, near 
his residence; when he travels it is their duty to move on both sides of his 
palanquin, in the jungle near the road ; they execute condemned criminals 
(which rarely occurs) within the desavony. 
The two Bulgamwala Mohandiram people. 
They are of the low caste, called Berawaya, and reside in the four 
villages Genihalpitiya, Ballatgomuwa, Fellake, and Kalahugoda, in the Para- 
nakurua Korle. 
The two first villages are subject to one Mohandiram, the two last to 
another; but sometimes all four are placed under one head man of 
their own caste, called Halawaliya, who is appointed over them, one in 
each village. 
They attend on duty at Kandy in rotation with the Kala Hewa Mohan- 
diram people, and perform the same menial services for the King or the De- 
save as above stated, except that of executioners. 
The people of the two first villages occasionally carry the hinder part of 
the Desave’s palanquin. 
Hitawidakarayo. 
‘These are people of low caste, inhabitants of the five following villages, 
called the DesaveGabada Gan,* viz. Pannenuwa Padidora, Mawana, Kawuda- 
wulle, Dorawaka, Ballapana. 
They are under the orders of five separate Vidans, appointed by the 
Desave, and of petty head men, Durayas, and Halawaliyas, of their own 
caste, within each. 
* See p. 204. 
