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He re-enters the vihare, fills a gold tray with lime juice 

 and sandalwood water, and taking the kedapata in his hand 

 anoints the head of the image reflected therein (ndnu mura 

 karanawd). He then comes out, and water is poured from a 

 kendiya on his hands by the priests and dayakos, who also 

 present him with gifts. This is known as kattru darsanaya 

 or katum dekima. The Netrd Pinkama is then celebrated and 

 lasts seven days. Anciently the painters stayed and received 

 all the offerings ; but now take the wages agreed on and 

 depart, receiving the offerings made at the Sadanganvidhiya . 



VII.— WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



The unit of weight among the gold and silversmiths is the 

 manchddiya or madatiya seed of about 3*5 grains. Of these, 

 twenty make a kalanda, or according to Davy* twenty-four, 

 a weight usually represented by a Dutch chally, and twelve 

 kalan go to a palama. Knox mentions the " collonda," of 

 which " six make just a piece of eight," and also its half and 

 quarter; with him twenty " beads" made a " collonda," and 

 twenty of these a " pallum." The rdttala or pound seems to 

 be of later introduction. Gold and silver are now as formerly 

 weighed against the current coin. 



The measures of length were the wadu angala, equal 

 to the space between the second and third joint of the fore- 

 finger, of which, seven went to the viyata or span, and 

 twenty-four to the wad riyana or carpenter's cubit ; and the 

 ordinary cubit or riyana. The carpenter's cubit is also said 

 to consist of the riyana, a viyata, and the breadth of four 

 fingers of one hand and of two of the other. This is the riyan 

 Ulla or cubit measure of Devendra Mulachariya, which is 

 thirty-one inches long, and is divided into twenty-four 

 "inches" {angal).\ 



According to Knox, " a rian is a Cubit, which is with them 

 from the bone on the inside of the Elbow to the tip of tli3 fourth 



* Interior of Ceylon, p. 243. 

 t Vide Arattana. 



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