252 Sir John D’Orxy’s Sketch, &c. 
sent of the Desave ; but sometimes without it, if of trifling extent. As no 
King’s service or revenues are diminished by the act, the King’s sanction 
was deemed less important. 
Purappadu Land is land vacant, or without owner. Land becomes Pu- 
rappadu either in failure of heirs, or by abandonment, or by forfeiture; but 
if taken to the crown, as usual in the latter case, it is called Gabada Game. 
Anda Land is that which is delivered by the proprictor to another to cul- 
tivate, on condition of delivering to him half the crop as rent; this is the 
usual condition on which fertile fields are annually let. 
Olu is of three kinds. 
ist. A portion of the crop equal to the extent sown, or to one and a half, 
or double the extent sown, in some paddy fields or chenas. It is the usual 
share paid to the proprietor by the cultivator from fields which are barren, 
or difficult of protection from wild animals, particularly in the Seven Korles, 
Saffregam Hewahete, and some chenas in Harispatta. In many royal vil- 
lages in the Seven Korles are lands paying ofu to the Crown. 
2d. The share of one-third paid from a field of tolerable fertility, or from 
a good chena sown with paddy. 
3d. The share which the proprietor of a chena sown by another with fine 
grains cuts first from the ripe crop, being one large basket full, or a man’s 
burden. 
Hena (or, as it is commonly called, chena) is high jungle ground, in which 
the jungle is cut and burnt for manure after intervals of from five to four- 
teen years, and the paddy called elwi, or fine grains, or cotton, and sometimes 
‘roots and other vegetables are cultivated; after two, or at the most three 
crops, it is abandoned till the jungle grows again. 
