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wide. It ends with a yadinna or invocation, which relates that the Yakas Rati-madera, Madana Giri, Arara-keli, Solon Giri, Mal-madana, Lê-madana, Gini-rradana, and Tomadana were all her from a corpse (that of the ascetic ?), and that the ascetic in the course of his warderings in search of his vanished charmer mistook the Mallava queen for Łer and poseeseed ter with enchantment, from which she had to be cured by a rite. The Madana-yak-upata and Rati-madana-yagé relate that the saint Ajasatta sat in penance 16 years under a banyan tree, of which the roots twined round him. To tempt him, Säkra created from a blue waterlily in a magic lake 7 beautiful nymphs, and sent them to him. He fell in love, burst the tree-roots binding him, and went towards them; but they disappeared, ard te wandered atcut until he met them at the Madana-parvata. Säkra then caused him and the nymphs to enter the world of men. The latter became the Yakinis Rîri-pulutu-mal-madana, Pisi-madana-gini-madana, Kiri-madana-kaka-madara, Sandunmadana-rati-madana, Andun-madana-tel-madana, Avara-madana-mal-madana, and Moholargiri-madana, demons who cause sickness among mankind; and Ajasatta was born as the spirit Rati-madana, or Ratikan. A Madana-yak-yadinna, after telling the tale of the ascetic, his temptation, and his transformation into Madana Yaka on the Madana-giri, says that Madana was con of Sohon Yaka and Sohon Yakini (from schon," cemetery'). With Rati Devi, the female created by Säkra, he afflicts young men and women with hysterical terror and headacho, and frightens solitary children ; milk, flowers, blood, sandal, resin-oil, and five kinds of flowers are offered to them at the junctions of three roads. See also Visâlâ.
Ratikan Kadavara. Invoked in Karlavara-vidiya. Rati-kanda. Accompanied Abhimâna to Ceylon; see Abhimana Yaka.
Ratikan Kumari. A female demon, for whose cult the R.-k.-baliya-kavi prescribes a bali-rite with a tray 7 spans long and 3 wide, on which should be an image of the goddess with two children on her lap and a man on each side holding one of her breasts; she should have a red hat, golden face, blue body, and black feet, 2 cobras over her head, golden cocks at her feet, and , throne supported upon a cock standing on a rock.
Ratikan-madana Yakini (R. Bisava). A female demon, inspiring carnal desires; invoked in R.-m.-bisavage kavi to cure sickness, together with the Yakinis Ina, Mala Irddhi, Riddhi, Siri, Madana, and Avara. They chiefly afflict handsome men. Offerings are made on a site 4 cubits square, with 3 posts on each side, furnished with strips of plantain bark, flowers, and scent.
Rat-mal Bisava. A goddess, invoked in Sat-bisav-yaga (Yaga-vidiya). Rat-mal is the red ixora flower. See Seven Queens.
Ratna Giri. A goddess, invoked in Giri-liyo-dolaha-pidavila and Dolos-giri-dev-liyage purata, in the latter as haunting jewellers' houses, delighting in pots and vessels, and receiving offerings of gourds and raw rice. See Giri.
Ratna Kadavara (Mänik K.). One of the Five Devatas : see Devata. When brought with the rest of the Five to Ceylon by Devatar Bancára, he entered into the service of Kanda at Kataragama, watching over his four cattle-folds and with him bathing in the Mänik-ganga. [Pas-derata-kavi.] See also Kambili Kadavara.
Ratna-pedi. See Tota Kadavara. Ratna Surindu. See Kambili Kadavara. Ratna-tilaka. See Nâta Deva.
Ratna-valli (Ruvan-väli, Nava-ratna-valli). (1) A goddess formerly worshipped in the Pihiti and Mâvâ districts. She is said to have been of the race of the Sun, and to have
