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24/11/2022

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The concept of burying food for long-term storage is known as caching and squirrels do it to survive harsh winter months.

10/11/2022

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Sri Lanka boasts a legacy of extensive ancient irrigation systems scattered within the island’s dry zone, raising the prospect of the discovery of more of th...

10/11/2022

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16/08/2022

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05/08/2022

𝓚𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓔𝓼𝓪𝓵𝓪 𝓟𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓽 ~(Vol:03)

I n the ancient period the king himself walked in the Randoli perahera with his retinue. They are two Adhigars, the Dissawas and leaders of the court.
All of them followed the last Dewala perahera as they couldn’t precede over the Tooth Relic or Gods.
In the olden days Buddhist monk also took part in the perahera.
And arrangements were done by the Sangkkara Lekama who made liaison between the king and monks.
Randoli perahera goes round the city for five nights and the final day is the grandest.
The last day perahera joined by devala pageants and proceed to Adhanamaluwa Viharaya (crematory compound in Asgiri temple)
The perahera casket temporarily placed there and guarded by the Basnayake Nilames, connected to dewalas.
King Keerithi Sri Rajasinghe ordered this as a mark of respect to the Queen mother who was cremated there.
Dewala pageants are returned to their respective devalas and gose out again in the early morning for water cutting.
Earlier this was done to commemorate a victory in the battle gods who defeated demons (asuras)
This symbolizes the blood stained swords were being cleaned.
The battle was between god Kataragama and demons.
Today the kapuralas of the four devalas fill goblets of river water purified after cutting the surface of water by the sword of the god.
Goblets are kept in the Devale peraheras till the next year water cutting ceremony.
Then Dewala peraheras return to the Ganadevi Kovila ( about of God Ganesh) where certain ceremonies are performed.
The whole festival comes to the end when the following afternoon the maligawa pageant returns to the Tooth relic temple from the Adahanamaluwa vihara bringing back the golden casket.
Dewala pageants also joined to the procession.
Later the pageants break up and each devala procession goes back into its Devala.
Finally the chiefs were received by the king to whom they pay obeisance and reported the success of the perahera and it had been held with due ceremonial.
The whole festival includes 17 majer and minor processions.
At the conclusion of the perahera, the ‘Perahera Sandeshaya’ (a message announcing the end of the festival of Esala Perahera)will be submitted to the president of the country by the Diyawadana Nilame associated with the participants.
With a view to blessing all the participants of the festival destroying any possible effect of evilness, a ritualistic dance, ‘Walliyak mangallaya’ is performed in the God Vishnu Temple in the Kandy.

Thank you: Mr. Karu Peiris

03/08/2022

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓯 𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓑𝓾𝓭𝓭𝓱𝓪 𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓹𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻 𝓚𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓼..

02/08/2022

𝓚𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓔𝓼𝓪𝓵𝓪 𝓟𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓽 ~(Vol:02)

Following the new moon in July a jak tree(Artocarpus hetrophyllus) or Rukkattana tree (Alstoniais scholaris)cut and 'Kap' is planted in each Dewale.
'kap' planting denotes the vow that the pageant will be held accordingly.

Five nights processions are conducted within the dewala premises with drums, flags and troches.
'kapurala' (the lay priest of the Devala)walks in theses processions carrying the golden weapon called 'Ran Ayudhaya'.
This belongs to the Deity of temple which used by him in battle with demons.

These processions are held in all Natha,Vishnu,Katharagama and Pattini Devalas on the 6th night starts the 'Kubal' perahera.
It's named by that as the 'Kap' is placed in a clay structure resembling an ant-hill the pageant which goes round this.

In this 6th night pageant is seen for the first time outside the Devalas and is joined by Maligawa Perahera.
The chiefs of the temple wear their traditional Kandyan court dress to participate the procession.
Each night the numbers of elephants are increased making pageant grander and colorful.

Afrer five Kumbal Peraheras the Randoli perahera is held,Randoli means Queens golden palanquin.
In 1775 the King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe ordered that the palanquins should be put at the end of perahera, because females not allowed to travel alongside the sacred items according to the Hindu tradition.
(bat we mustn’t forget that the tooth relic was brought hiding inside the hair of a female, princess Hememala).

Palanquins may be a symbol of the presence of the consorts of deities.
(King’s palanquin is ‘Koonama’ Queens’s ‘Randoli’, monks ‘pallakkiya’, chieftains Dolawa and for the harem Yakada doli)

Thank you : Mr. Karu Peiris.

29/07/2022

𝓚𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓔𝓼𝓪𝓵𝓪 𝓟𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓽 (Vol:01)

Kandy Esala perahera is held annually in July/August on days fixed according to auspicious times calculated by the temple astrologers.

Diywadana Nilame, the chief lay officer of the Tooth Relic Temple is responsible for this.

Mahawamsa says the Tooth Relic was brought in the reign of King Kithsiri Mewan in the year 309 AD.
it was placed in an urn of pure crystal and brought it to the Dhammachakka mandiraya.
(this abode was built by King Dewanampiyatissa on the Royal territory in 3rd century BC)King Kithsiri Mewan spent 900,000 kahapanas (currency of the ancient period) and arranged a
great festival for the Tooth Relic.

He ordered that this festival should be brought every year to the Abhayuttara Viharaya (Abhayagiri)

Sacred Tooth Relic was taken round the city once a year in the month of March and placed in Abhayagiri Viharaya for ninety days.
This was a ritual invoke blessing the gods for rainfall in time.

Fa-hsien (5th century) confirms that this decree was faithfully carried out by the later kings, too.

Fa-hsien says all monks and lay devotees who wish to pay respect to the Relic and gain of merit prepare and smooth the roads.

Adorn the highways and scatter every kind of the flower and offer incense in reverence to the Relic.
Characters of Buddha's previous birth are painted in vivid colors to depict life-like appearance.
As they proceed on the way, religious offerings are made to it.
When arrived at the Abhayagiri Viharaya they placed it in the 'Hall of the Buddha'.
all devotees pay homage to the Tooth Relic day and night, without ceasing.
After ninety days the tooth Relic again returns to the Damma Chakka Mandira in the inner citadel.
Likewise Fa-hsien describes how the olden days they performed the Esala perahera in Anuradhapura.

Only four Devala pageants were held in kandy during Kandyen period.
The Esala Tooth Relic pageant of welivita sangaraja Thera during the reign of the king keerthi Sri Rajasinghe.
Today the lay custodian of the Tooth Relic is the Diyawadana Nilame.

Thank you : Mr. Karu Peiris.