Rains come down during Tooth Relic exposition

by Jiffrey ABDEEN, Kandy South Group Corr.

Heavy showers fell in Kandy city as large crowds thronged to see the exposition of Sacred Tooth Relic at the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy on Friday afternoon.

This was the first day of the exposition of the Relic and the people clad in white lined up along the queues from the previous day. By Friday morning the queues along D. S. Senanayake Road had extended up to the end of the road which was little less than a kilometre.

The other from the Dalada Maligawa extended along Sangaraja Mawatha upto Mahamaya Girls College along the Kandy Lake which was nearly a kilometre long.

The age old belief that when there is exposition of the Relic, there will be rain, once again came true when the exposition was on, there was welcome showers.

British Administrator John D’oyly who was the First Resident and First Commissioner of the Board formed in 1815, to administer the affairs of the Kandyan Kingdom after the capture of the last King of Kandy has recorded in his book published in 1846 that there is a belief among the subjects that whenever there is an exposition of the Tooth Relic there is rain, even during a drought. This belief was proved beyond doubt by Friday afternoon’s showers.

Kandy police headed by DIG Central Province, Pujitha Jayasundera maintained tight security with random checks carried on vehicles entering the Kandy city. The exposition ends on March 16.