දර·දඬු·ගැහෙනවා, v. i. to become stick-like or stiff, to stiffen (as a corpse).

ද්වි·පුරුෂතාව, n. having two husbands, bigamy.

දෙනට, n. E. of ධනිෂ්ඨ.

දඹ·රත්රන්, n. a superior sort of gold.

වි·සහස්‍රාක්‍ෂයා, n. the two thousand-eyed one, viz. the sovereign of the serpents and couch of Vishnu or king of the නාගලෝකය; ap. Indra as regent of the stellar regions, or personifications of those regions.

දද·පෙළ, n. line or string of various flags, used as festive ornamentation for a temple, to present which is regarded as very meritorious.

දුක්ඛිතකම, n. afflicted state, wretchedness, sorrowfulness, distress, misery.

දුග්·ගන්න·පේරුව, n. the class or caste from which personal attendants on the king are taken.

දන්තෝද්භේදය, n. (දන්ත උද්භේදය), dentition, දත් අටගැනීම or පැමිණිම.

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.