APPENDIX 
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The sitty cast, to offer alms. 
The merchants' cast, to offer incense, oil, and light. 
The archers, to drive away birds. 
Eight persons of each of these casts. 
Taracheyan, to make a sort of umbrellas called seysans. 
Kulingayan, to bring flowers. 
Kappakayan, to prepare food. 
Balaltayan, door keepers. 
Pesa karayan, to furnish linen strainers to filter water. This is the 
cast of Ghalias, * or cinnamon peelers, who continue to make 
strainers. 
Kumba karayan, potters. 
Mala karayan, linkers of flowers. 
Ganda karayan, perfumers. 
Sinda karayan, taylors who make flags, canopies, and valences. 
Sup a karayan, cooks. 
Kamma karayan, to furnish razors and scissars. 
Loha karayan, makers of gold and silver ornaments. 
Swarna karayan, makers of gold and silver pots. 
Wadda karayan, carpenters. 
Chitta karayan, to paint sessats or umbrellas. 
Atochiwada karayan, to beat all kinds of drums. 
Chalta karayan, to make umbrellas. 
Uyana palian, to plant flowering shrubs. 
* This class disputes rank with the fishermen. The employment of peeling cinnamon 
has, from its importance to Europeans, given them an ascendancy, which has excited 
the jealousy and ill will of other casts, more dignified and less useful. 
