ledda

Updated: May 16, 2025

The latter they call par excellence "maha ledda," the great "sickness;" they look upon it as a special manifestation of devidosay, "the displeasure of the gods;" and the attraction of the cheetahs to the bed of the sufferer they attribute to the same indignant agency.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon