The royal stables of Sri Dalada Maliga are now open to all. Now you too can spend time with the elephants of Garu Gambhira Saddanta tribe. Now you have the opportunity to hold small celebrations with these people, help them bathe, feed them specially prepared food from your hands, but also take photos with Saddanta clan friends. After paying obeisance to Monk Dalada, don't forget to spend some time with Saddanta Kule Maha Awatu...
This is a post that was added to the social media by the elephants of Sri Dalada Maliga. There is a saying that elephants and scapegoats never get bored. Go beyond seeing elephants and find out about this wonderful opportunity to not only feed and bathe the elephants but also take pictures from up close.
At around 10.00 am when we reached Atgale, Kandula the elephant was lying down in the pool of Atgale and swimming. A German was rubbing Kandula's head and neck with a cut part of a coconut shell. Budhika Kumara, who works as an elephant keeper in Sri Dalada Maliga, who has been with Kandula for about eight years, provided facilities for Sesso Kandula, who came with him, and took pictures without a turban. From Kandula they next proceeded to Mian Raja where the trees were tied. Not only bananas, melons and sugarcane, but the German tourist group also gave Mian Raja a nutritious meal prepared in the local Ayurvedic method using kollu, soya, mung beans and honeydew at Atgala. Meanwhile, a group that came from Colombo to Kandy to participate in the annual charity charity for the tooth, also came to Atgala to have this wonderful experience. At that time, the Raju elephant belonging to Asgiri Mahanayake Therodra had also arrived at the elephant stable.
Dalada Palace owns the largest number of domesticated elephants in the country. At present, the elephant class of Dalada Palace consists of 09 elephants and three elephants. Raju elephant belonging to Lord Asgiri Mahanayake, Vasala elephant belonging to Dhammadassi prelates of Asgiri Anunayake Anamaduwa and Sama elephant owned by Uduwe Dhammaloka prefects are these days in the elephant stable of Dalada Maliga. If there is a request to take care of the elephants growing up in the temples for a short period of time, Pradeep Nilanga Dela of Diyawadana Nilame will direct the animals to the elephant farm and provide them care.
Mianapalawa said. Accordingly, Raju, Vasala and Sama join the Athgala of Dalada Palace.
Not only the kings but also the common people used to sacrifice not only gold, pearls and gems but also animals such as elephants and donkeys for Dalada, treating him as a living Buddha. It is said in history that it was difficult to find a person among the people who went to see a Dalada exhibition held on King Kitsiri's day without offering his hand and shoulder jewelry to Lord Dalada. In this way, among those who sacrifice their most valuable objects for the Talada, there are also those who offer elephants to the class of elephants in the Talada Mandura. Foreign religious leaders are also among them. On the one hand, it is surprising that some people who were born in foreign countries were lucky enough to come to this country on ships and carry the casket in the Kandy Esala procession. In 1975, when Nisshanka Wijayaratne assumed the position of Diyawadana Nilam, there were only two elephants, Raja and Kanda, who were offered by the Mampitiya District to Dalada Palace in 1937, and Jayarajath, who was offered by the former Prime Minister of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Later in 1978, former minister Wimala Kannangara offered an elephant and an elephant to the palace. With these two named Eka Dantaya and Kandula, the number of elephants in the palace increased to five. There is a belief that the elephant named Dantaya because of the presence of one tusk brought good luck to the elephants in the palace. It is because of the rapid increase in the number of elephants of the elephant class in Dalada Palace with the addition of Eka Dantya.
Raja, Kanda and Eka Dantaya, who were the founding members of the elephant class, left this world with the good fortune of carrying the auspicious casket. Kandula, who is alive among them, is now 55 years old. Janaraja joined the class of elephants in the palace in 1985. Former President J. R. Jayawardena offered the Janaraja Talada Palace at the Dehiwala Zoo. Indi Raja, who has been dedicated to the task of carrying the casket in the Dalada Perahare for two decades, was presented to the palace in 1986 by former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Indi Raja, who joined the Dalada Maliga elephant class at the age of six, is now 44 years old.
The two elephants named Kadira and Menika were offered to the temple by Anomadassi Thero of the Keraminia temple in 1986. Manika unfortunately died in 2004 after being struck by lightning. Vijaya Raja (Thai Raja) who was sacrificed by the King of Thailand in the same year is now 50 years old. Former President R. In 1989, an elephant named Nalaka was offered to Premadasa Dalada Maliga. In 1994, Thero Sinha, who had the good fortune to carry the casket, joined the class of elephants at Raja Palace. During the war, a group of members of the Army's Lion Regiment met the elephant calf when it was lost in the Vavuniya forest after being shot and lost, and they named it Sinha Raja. Sri Dalada Perahara was involved in several cases while he was in charge of the Sinha Regiment
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