The lifelong companion of the famous Maligawa Raja. Tikiri Banda Mampitiya Disawa of Giragama Walauwa bought the two young tuskers together in December 1925 from the merchant Ummeru Lebbe, who had captured them in the eastern jungles, and donated both to the Sri Dalada Maligawa on 31 July 1937. Kanda walked beside Raja in the perahera.