Wariyapola (SL)

Sin: වාරියපොල vāriyapola ‘Indigo Place’  NWP,  Sri Lanka. From Sin: nili (colloq. awariya) ‘indigo plant’ [Indigofera tinctoria]; and Sin: pola/pala, ‘place, site, village’. Wariyapola Sri Sumangala is a monk who was born here and became famous in 1815 for lowering...