Nedungamuwe Raja | නැදුන්ගමුවේ රාජා හස්තියා තම හිමිකරුගේ මවගේ අවමංගල උත්සවයට කදුලු පිරි දෑසින් එක්වේ

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Dr. Dharmavijaya and his son were interested in purchasing the elephant. The encounter was a defining moment. The doctor declared that the accidental meeting was auspicious, 
the hand of destiny. Thus Raja changed owners. The year was 1978 when he moved to his new home, the grounds of the physician's estate in Nedungamuwa in the Western Province of Sri Lanka to lead a life befitting an elephant of such remarkable stature.
There the doctor and beast came to know each other. He noted that Raja belonged to the lofty Sadhantha kula, (one of ten castes of the Asian elephant, grouped according to their physical characteristics.) Sadhantha elephants are deemed a noble breed, being of exceptional height and girth, bigger and mightier than other Asian elephant casts. Towering ten and a half feet, the young elephant was a giant among giants, taller than the average Sadhantha male. His tusks were extraordinarily long and crossed, also a mark of distinction.
For his size, Rajah was exceptionally calm-on a rare display of displeasure or unease he would simply refuse to budge. After a heavy load of work, 
he would rest. He resisted confined spaces like travelling in the back of a lorry or in a train but was ever willing to walk a long distance, possibly following the instinctive call of his ancestors who would have walked the jungle's length and breadth. Vehicles alarmed him, and if he saw a car approach, he would freeze up, and so he would only walk on roads at times when there was little or no traffic.
Most importantly, he displayed the hathpolaya (the seven extremities-legs, trunk, tail and extruded male organ-touch the ground when he is standing), markers of elephant greatness that made him suitable for sacred ceremonial duties. He held his head high, not bowed like other elephants, and his back was broad and flat. The good doctor dedicated the beast to religious and cultural activities, and rest.
Thus a new page turned in Raja's life. Now a native of Nedungamuwa, he became Nedungamuwa Raja, or the King of Nedungamuwa. He also met Wilson Kodhithuwakku, the wiry chief mahout tasked with caring for him, 
who is by his side daily even today.
Raja was born in 1954, not in 
Sri Lanka but in the stables of a maharajah in Mysore, India. He was one of two baby elephants gifted to a physician monk from the Nilammahara Temple in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, who had travelled to the maharajah's estates to heal the ailing aristocrat. The two young elephants were shipped to Sri Lanka. When the monk could no longer afford to keep the two animals, they were sold, and Raja ended up at the timber factory, perhaps to repay an ancient karmic debt.
Senior Dr Dharmavijaya doted on his elephant. When he passed away, his son, Dr Harsha Dharmavijaya, inherited the animal. Like his father, Harsha is a native physician of people, but is also skilled in elephant vedakam, indigenous medicine for elephants. Raja is in good hands.
Raja is one of the family, says Harsha. His diet is carefully monitored to ensure it is balanced and strengthening. It varies from day to day-if he has coconut leaves on Monday, it would be kos (jak fruit) on Tuesday, bo leaves on Wednesday and banana trunks the day after. Just a 350kg helping a day is a reasonable share for a big guy. There are fruits too-bananas, mangoes and his favourite, pineapples, and the occasional treat of jaggery. And there are baths every other day... a three-kilometre walk to the river takes an hour, accompanied by Wilson, assistant mahout Indika Jayasinghe, and a few others. Raja soaks for as long as five hours, lolling around almost underwater except for the tip of his trunk. On his way to and from the bath, he willingly stops for treats from the townsfolk who pop tasty tidbits right into his mouth.
When he isn't resting, Raja participates in peraheras, colourful religious processions, most often 
bearing the temple's sacred relics. 
He has received special training for the role. For many years now, he has carried the karanduwa, casket enshrining the sacred relic of the Buddha, for many of the island's major peraheras, such as the Bellanwila, Pitta Kotte and Nawagamuwa peraheras. Strangely, he loses his fear of noise and crowds on these occasions.

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