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Athula Raja

අතුල රාජා அதுல ராஜா

Athula Raja
Sumudusoyza007 · CC BY-SA 4.0
A photo of a Sri Lankan Elephant — not this animal

A tusker of the Hunupitiya Gangaramaya temple, first owned by ‘Anton Appo’, the Basnayake Nilame of the Ratnapura Saman Devale. Tall even when young, he was described as the tamest elephant at Gangaramaya and took part in peraheras and upasampada ceremonies around the island; a replica of him was made by Kasun Wickremesinghe.

Sources

  1. Gangaramaya Tuskers were privileged to have carried the Dalada Sacred Casket — Daily Mirror, 13 Aug 2016