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8. (Having made) in the middle of the threshing-floor an arak-hole, 
(And set up) a bull post in the middle of it, 
And on its end a puwah flower, 
(And round) for the bull post a galaotuvm^ 
9. Having got some dawata pilila. 
Having got some dehi pilila, ^ ^ 
Having got some nuga pilila,' 
Having got some hulat pilila, 
10. Having got some dodam pilila, 
Having got some iluJc pilila, 
Having got some goyam pilila, 
Having got these seven pilila^ 
11. Having got the arak helld, 
Having brought seven red ripe arecanuts, 
And also seven leaves of hadurii^ 
Having brought a very young warahd jak fruit, 
12. Having got as well the gore of a buffalo, 
And also having got the gore of a cobra. 
And also having got the gore of a goat, 
And also having got the gore of a horse, 
follow each other round the post trampling out the corn. They are driven 
by boys, who catch what is voided in the baaal leaf sheaths of the areca palm 
and throw it away from the floor. 
* Pilila^ i.e., Lorantlius^ a parasite resembling honeysuckle, common on 
many trees in Ceylon ; the trees mentioned are dawata {Carallia integer rimna 
DC), dehi (lime), nuga {Ficm altissima, Bl. var. laccifera Roxb.),&^Z^?^ (betel) 
dodam (orange) ; but I do not know what the pilila of ihik {Imperata 
arundinacea, Cyr.) or paddy can be. lluk leaves are, however, put into the 
arakwala, perhaps as a substitute. 
^ The arak-helld is a seven-fingered aporrhais-like marine shell, placed 
with the arak in the ai^ahwala^ apparently corresponding to the mutta of 
Mr. Bell, Journal, C.B.R.A.S., vol. VIII., p. 49. 
Kaduru^ Taherncemontana dichotoma, Roxb. 
' There are two kinds of jak fruit, warahd and wela ; the former, being 
firm textured and of a golden colour, is preferable to the latter, which 
is soft. 
