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" (5) Fourteen Atapattukdrayo, who furnish or execute 

 fine work, and are principally employed in ornamenting or 

 inlaying locks, guns, knives, handles, &c, with gold, silver, 

 or brass. Two of them perform service in the Ran-dwuda 

 mandape, under an Atapattu Hangidiyd. 



" (6) Four Badallu or silversmiths, under the orders of a 

 Muhandirama, who perform any gold, silver, brass, or copper 

 works : two of them perform service in the Ran-dwuda 

 mandape. 



(7) One Gal-waduwd, or stone cutter. 



" (8) Twenty Mura-dchdriyo , or blacksmiths, under the 

 orders of a Hangidiyd and Atu-hangidiyd. A certain number 

 of them, varying according to the exigency of the service, 

 attend constantly in Kandy, and erecting workshops near the 

 Disawa's house, execute all kinds of common ironwork, for 

 which the metal is furnished to them. 



" (9) Eight blacksmiths, without regular service lands, under 

 the orders of a Hangidiyd, who appear before the Disawa at the 

 new year with a knife and scissors ^ach, and are called to 

 service only upon emergencies. 



" (10) Ten Disawe blacksmiths, under a Hangidiyd, who 

 work for the Disawa only. 



" But these three classes of blacksmiths are sometimes placed 

 under the same Hangidiya and Atu-hangidiya. 



" All the above artificers, except the blacksmiths last- 

 mentioned, perform either particular works directed by the 

 king, or works belonging to public buildings allotted to the 

 Disawany, or any works required by the Disawa."* 



Outside the Disawanies, within the mountains each rata had 

 its own Kottal-badda, with its own petty headmen, and forming 

 part of the Uda-raia Kottal-badda. 



Certain persons of the Kottal-badda were attached to Gaba- 

 ddgam, e.g., the Achari of Vewagama Tumpattu in Seven 

 Korales. There was also a Kottal-badda under a Badal Viddne 

 attached to Sabaragamu Maha Saman Dewale, to which 

 Mudduwa and Nakandala appertained. 



* D'Oyly. 



