Editing Vedda (section)

===Burial===
Since the opening of colonization schemes, Vedda burials changed when they dug graves of {{convert|4|-|5|ft|m|abbr=in|order=flip}} deep and wrapped the body wrapped cloth and covered it with leaves and earth. The Veddas also laid the body between the scooped out trunks of the ''gadumba'' tree (''[[Trema orientalis]]'') before they buried it. At the head of the grave were kept three open coconuts and a small bundle of wood, while at its foot were kept an opened [[coconut]] and an untouched coconut. Certain cactus species (''pathok'', ''[[Opuntia dillenii]]'' or ''[[Opuntia stricta|O. stricta]]'') were planted at the head, the middle and the foot. Personal possessions like the bow and arrow, betel pouch, were also buried. This practice varied by community. The contents of the [[betel]] pouch of the deceased were eaten after his death.