Sri Lanka is mourning the death of a very famous Indian elephant. This elephant was living in Sri Lanka for the last 50 years. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called it a ‘national treasure’. The ‘Nadungmuwa Raja’ elephant has died at the age of 69.
President told national treasure
The Nadungmuwa king used to participate in the Perahera festival and annual holy ceremonies of Kandy district. After his death many people including Buddhist priests have bid farewell. President Rajapaksa has ordered officials to preserve the king’s body for ‘future generations’. He has described the elephant king as a ‘national treasure’.
The elephant king of Mysore was
According to a report in The Hindu, Raja was born in Mysore in 1954. The elephant king Maharaja Jayachamarajendra lived near Wadiyar. According to Dr Harsha Dharmavijaya, an Ayurvedic physician, King Jayachamarajendra gifted a Sri Lankan monk doctor to the Nadungmuwa king for the treatment of the disease.
jaggery was very much like
A Hindu report states that the gift from the king was sold by a monk doctor to a timber mill in Horana, south of Colombo. Dr. Dharmavijay’s father, who was troubled to see the magnificent elephant with long and strong teeth being carried away by the logs, had bought it. The mahout Wilson Koddithuvakku of the Nadungmuva king has told The Hindu that he was given many fruits along with regular food. Loved that jug.