WHAT DOES NILAME MEAN?

His properties and estates belonging for the Nilame have been confiscated. The Nilame's spouse and four sons were despatched to Kalutara and his mother and sister to Colombo in retaliation from kinfolk.He was a well known leader in the Uva rebellion of 1818 just after he joined the rebels whom he was despatched to suppress via the British. The rebe