We are four miles from Kandy, the Hill Capital of Sri Lanka. Kandy is home to the Temple of tooth, the depository of the Tooth Relic, the most venerated of Buddha’s relics. It is housed inside side several caskets. Every year this casket is taken around the city in a colorful possession. (www.daladamaligawa.org)
Exposition of the relic sans caskets is a rare event. Among many legends about the tooth relic is that exposition the relic brings rain. The country was experiencing a four month drought when an exposition commenced on 6th of March after a lapse of five years. Rain started falling on the same day! Five days later the rain has not stopped but the drought is long over!
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