Kandy

Kandy is a one of the ancient kingdom of Sri Lanka. It can be describe as the final kingdom of ancient era. Kandy city is located in 116 km away from Colombo and travel time is around 4 hours. Kandy city was mostly affected by the prutugesi   Dutch and British era in 16 th to 18 th century. Kandy is the last independent   capital of Sri Lanka .Kandy became the kingdom of the last independent king of Sri Wicrama Rajasinha . Kandy remain as capital of Sri Lanka until it become a under the British rule by agreement at 1815.

Lots of No of temples is located in Kandy Such as

·         Temple of Tooth

·         Lankathilaka Viharaya

Temple of Relic Tooth

Temple of Relic Tooth is the most well-known attractive place in Kandy. in Sinhala, it mention “Daladha Maliyawa”. Buddha’s Relic Tooth was bringing to Sri Lanka in the King Nishshankamalla’s time. After that it became a symbol of royal and peoples of Sri Lanka thought that ownership of the relic tooth is a requirement to be a king. So every king tries to protect and honor it, therefore when the shifted the kingdom, also sifted the relic tooth for new kingdom.  

Relic tooth was first brought to Kandy during the king Vimaladarmasooriya’s time in the 17^th century and he built a temple for it. This temple was destroyed due to Portuguese attacks. After that king second Rajasinghe repowered the kingdom, built a building for relic tooth by him. When the concentrate on the present buildings, most of them are built by king Veera Narendrasinghe and those are modified by subsequent kings and at presently those building are maintaining by the government of Sri Lanka.

Relic tooth is kept inside a reliquary with more protection. Presently, temple of Relic tooth administrated by Malvathu and Asgiri Maha Vihara. There are having two times services for s sacred relic tooth at morning and evening. Temple of relic tooth conducts a perahara festival in July month which can be considered as the huge cultural festival in Sri Lanka, even south Asia.