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be cured by the power of Mal Pattini, Amba P., Uramâla P., Karamála P., Siddha P., Gini P., and Teda P. He is said in Vas-haranê to have arisen out of the funeral pyre of Asupâla Kumari. The Sûniyan-kalu-yak-kavi describes the arrival of the Sâniyan Yakas in Ceylon by permission of Odḍisa and Vesamunu. To Sûniyan Yaka are to be offered 3 fowls' eggs, blood, flesh, fried meat, and two red cocks; he carries a palm-leaf and style in one hand and a golden club in the other. A ritual of exorcism is described. He obtained the sanction of the Buddhas. He appears as a boar, bear, bull, hornet, humble-bee, scarab beetle, cobra, viper, frog, hamadryad (mâpil), gecko, skink, screech-owl to the north of the house, gurulu, blue-fly, kindura, crow, red cock; or as a Buddhist priest in dreams. [Oddisa-vidiya.] His influence is described in Garâ-yak-pâliya. He is invoked in the Satara-varan-mal-yahan, and mentioned in the Vadiga-patunê-yâge as attending on the V.-p. See also Oddisa, Ratikan, Riri Yaka, Visâlâ, Visnu.
Igaha. See Arrow.
Ilandari Devata. To him Ayyanar made over his temple at Virakkuliya. He is said to possess the singer of Nayi-natavana-kavi (see Cobra). See also Kambili Kadavara.
Ilandari Devi. See Kaludäkada Kumaru.
Ina Bisava. A female demon, invoked in Ratikan-madana-bisavagê kavi. See Ratikanmadana Yakini.
Ina-madana Yaka. A demon who haunts rocks near fords, and inspires carnal desire. [Ratikan-madana-bisavagê kavi.]
Ina Yakas. Demons of ina or love-spells, who attack women. The Inâ-málê exorcises them and the Yakas hidden in hot water, summoning them to a flower-altar and invoking them by the power of the Buddhas Kakusanda, Kassapa, and Gautama, various Buddhist themes, and the Seven Pattinis. See also Mänikpála.
Indra. (1) See Säkra. (2) King of Baranäs; see Wooden Peacock.
Indra-gurulu. An imaginary being, represented in the exorcistic rite of 1,-g.-bali by a figure of which the head is the sign of the Zodiac presiding over the sick man's nativity, its body the appropriate nakṣatra or constellation, and its vehicle the yoni of his nativity. See also Hat Aḍiya.
Indrani. Wife of Säkra (Indra); invoked in Tis-payê kîma as regent of the 15th paya. Irandati. Mother of Kambili Kadavara.
Irandati Kumari. Mother of Däḍimunda, and daughter of Varuna Nâ-râja and Vimalâ. Iraniya-bali. A rite mentioned in Môlan-garâ-kavi.
Irddhi Bisava. A female demon, invoked in Ratikan-madana-bisavagê kavi. See Ratikanmadana Yakini.
Irddi Kurumbara. A spirit, invoked in Gi-maḍu-yagaya.
Irl. See Line.
Iru (Sarya). The sun. He was born of Kamala Devi in Kalingu-rata. He is golden in colour, and lord of the east. [Nava-graha-sântiya, Iru-handa-gamana-kavi.] The Suryakovul-muraya says that the Sun, accompanied by the Moon, once went to the Nâga king to get for himself a bride, and the Nâga gave him his daughter Pusäti. But Râhu in spite took the form of a Naga and poisoned the Sun and Moon, and they fell down upon two sides of a continent. The Nâgas then sucked out the poison, and the Rsis exorcised the spell; the Sun was crowned and anointed with water from the Anotatta lake. The Dehiupata tells a story of the poisoning of the Sun and Moon by Râhu and their healing by the Reis by means of limes (see Limes). The Sun is in the right ear of Oḍdisa, q. v. He
