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Panna caste
Panna caste is a derogatory term used for the bodhi vamsa or bodhahara caste in Sri Lanka. The caste has also been referred to as villi dura or simply the dura caste.〔Ievers, R. W. , Manual of the North-central Province of Ceylon,1899〕 During the colonial period it was erroneously termed a grass cutting caste.〔Bryce Ryan, ''Caste in Modern Ceylon'', Rutgers University Press, 1953.〕〔1855 Ceylon Gazetteer〕 However, no historical sources have been found to indicate that a caste for cutting grass came to Sri Lanka with Sri Maha Bodhi, the bodhi tree sacred to some buddhists.
==Etymology of the word panna==
The term "panna" may have derived by its association with temples (''pannasala'') or scripts (''panna'' in the Pali language). Earlier they were known as ''aramikas'' who managed temple property. This was once a highly regarded profession. The Mahavamsa historical chronicle states that King Aggabodhi I assigned a hundred of his relatives to be ''aramikas''. Some of the people belonging to this caste still attend to the duties assigned to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi holy tree to this day. The head of the clan attending to Sri Maha Bodhi is known as ''mahaya'',〔archives.dailynews.lk/2009/06/16/fea28.asp〕〔archives.dailynews.lk/2009/06/17/fea12.asp〕〔archives.dailynews.lk/2009/06/19/fea16.asp〕 which is the old term used to denote the next in line to the kinship of country.
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