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akura akuru älapilla alliteration Asna awareness bahuśruta bimin bindu Book of Sermons Buddha Buddhist child Colombo consonant daham Disanayaka doctrine English version folklore foot-stroke four letters fruit gäța given guru head-stroke honour idiom ispili ispilla Jātaka kala kana Kataragama ki ki kind knowledge of letters known kombu Lakuna learning literally means literally translated mala māra mala pota Mangul māra Maraya's mārayage Martin Wickramasinghe mixed Sinhala alphabet monk Mulkirigala nāki namaki näti noveyi novice-monk numba paddy pair of words Pali palm-leaf papilla parlance phrase possess proverb Pūjāvaliya pupil referred rice riddle saki dannavada Sanskrit Śataka signs Sinhala alphabet Sinhala language Sinhala villager Sinhalese sound Sri Lanka sudu teacher temple-alphabet term tiyana liya Total Education traditional Sinhala society transposition transposition of letters transposition technique tree uḍin University of Colombo usage vahen vowel word mala writing written yana yanse yanu yavahan