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G. PUNCHIHEWA
Nestling
in the outskirts of Chilaw, there lies a sleepy little hamlet called
Haldaduwana. There also one time lived a typical villager - a gamaya - by
the name of Dikiri Kege Adissi Appu. In search of greener pastures, he
mi..."
G. PUNCHIHEWA
Nestling
in the outskirts of Chilaw, there lies a sleepy little hamlet called
Haldaduwana. There also one time lived a typical villager - a gamaya - by
the name of Dikiri Kege Adissi Appu. In search of greener pastures, he
migrated to Uthumankanda lying along the Colombo-Kandy highway, close to
Mawanella.
This young Dikiri Kege Adissi Appu took to pedalling his jewellery ware
kept in a box which he carried on his head. It contained a variety of
jewellery curios ranging from necklaces, bangles, earrings, and chains to
other enticing curios ornaments for the fair sex and children, as well.
So this pedlar carrying his jewellery box from house to house. Village
urchins in merriment ran behind him cheering and clapping all the way in joy
as village boys always did. Village belles like the old saying, "What female
heart could gold despise, what cat could averse to fish,", were his
demanding but glamorous customers. The village maids fair by far would flock
around him, holding the fascinating items they chose in their tender hands
would bargain and even teased Adissi Appu for reasonable prices. Among those beautiful damsels in Molligoda close to Uthumanakanda), there
was a vivacious belle of the highlands. She was Pichohamy. While Adissi Appu
was selling his delicate but alluring goods, Pichohamy would always give him
her bashful side-long looks of love. Their eyes met. It was love at first
sight! And they fell head over heels in love. So they got married and lived
thereafter blissfully in Molligoda with her aged father. Pichohamy's mother
had died about ten years ago. The popular village gossip about Pichohamy's mother was that she was a
concubine of the King of Kandy, Sri Wickremasinghe. But Pichohamy's father
dismissed such scandalous gossip and had sworn that Pichohamy was his own
legitimate daughter. In their newly wedded bliss, Adissi Appu used to tease
her recalling this scurrilous story, but she never got angry over it with
her beloved husband whom she trusted and adored. He used to tease her of
this wild gossip, saying wryly: "You might be having royal blood"! ...
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