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Page 143
The Tooth could never be taken out or shown without the consent of both the
Manager or Guardian of the Temple , the Diyawadana Nilame , in 1908 a fine old
Kandyan chief and Ratemahatmaya , called Nugawela , and the Government
Agent ...
The Tooth could never be taken out or shown without the consent of both the
Manager or Guardian of the Temple , the Diyawadana Nilame , in 1908 a fine old
Kandyan chief and Ratemahatmaya , called Nugawela , and the Government
Agent ...
Page 163
... the multiplicity of its florid Gods , their grotesque images , the ugly exuberance
of the temples , the horrible juggernaut ... come and see him at his house there
and also the Hindu Tiruketheesvaram temple which he is restoring at great cost .
... the multiplicity of its florid Gods , their grotesque images , the ugly exuberance
of the temples , the horrible juggernaut ... come and see him at his house there
and also the Hindu Tiruketheesvaram temple which he is restoring at great cost .
Page 228
The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in
Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple
kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager .
When I told ...
The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in
Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple
kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager .
When I told ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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