අග්නි දේවා, n. the Pleiades, the third lunar mansion, so called because අග්නිදේව governs this constellation.

අධ‍ව ගයා, n. (ග going), traveller, journeyer, ගමන්කාරයා; ap. of the camel and the sun because they journey: ඔටුවා, සූය්‍ය්‍ර්‍යා.

අනන්තයා, n. the infinite one: ap. of නාගරාජයා, so called because he has two thousand tongues.

අමා මහ නිවන, n. great deathless Nirvāna, viz, deathless, because transmigration has ceased.

අරත්ත, අරැත්ත, ichneumon plant, so called because the mongoose is said to use this plant as an antidote to the poison of a snake-bite. [Ophiorrhiza Mungos.—A]

උන්මත්ත, lit, insane, poisonous: several species of the datura, so called because of their poisonous nature, see and උතක්‍ෂිප්ත and අත්තන.

එසේ හෙයින්, conj. because it is so, therefore.

කුමක් හෙයින්ද යත්, conj. = If one said wherefore, because, for, මක්නිසාද කීවොත්.

කුශතෘණ, arrow-grass, Paspalum sanguinale (Gram.). It is regazided as sacred because when a handful of it Was given to Buddha by a Brahman he cast it under a Bo-tree and it immediately became a seat for him.

ත්‍රි·පුර, n. name of a district; ap. of Rāvanā the Asura or demon who was king of Ceylon, so called because he occupied a district containing three famous cities.

ත්‍රි·භණ්ඩි, (ත්‍රි three, භණ්ඩි anti), a plant, so called because it is said to be antibilious, antiphlegmatic and autifebrile, see ත්‍රස්තවාලු.

දක්‍ෂයා, n. clever person; name of a son of Brahma. He was called දක්‍ෂ because he sprang into being from the right-hand thumb of his father. He had sixty daughters, Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 273 -- twenty-seven of whom being married to the moon became the twenty-seven lunar mansions; one, දුර්‍ගා, was married to Siva, and thirteen became wives of කාශ්‍යප.

නිර්‍මාණ·රතිය, n. lit. created pleasure: name of the fifth divine world, so called because the inhabitants create new enjoyments for themselves.

නිසා, conj. because; post. for, on account of, because of.

පංචාංගුල, lit. five-flnger: so called because the leaves resemble the. open hand; castor-oil plant, එඬරු.