INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kandy Esala festival of the Temple of the Scared Tooth Relic in Kandy drew to an end today with the water-cutting ceremony held at the
Mahaweli River in Getambe, early this morning (Aug 12).The final Randoli Perahera of the Kandy Esala festival paraded the streets last night
(Aug 11) with usual pomp and pageantry.The President Media Division reported that President Ranil Wickremesinghe also joined the occasion to
witness the procession.Meanwhile, a huge crowd thronged also thronged to Kandy for the procession, which paraded the streets without
spectators in the past couple of years due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.The scared Casket of the Temple of Scared Tooth Relic was
officially come to an end after the Nilames together with the Diyawadana Nilame presented the Perahera Memorandum to the President.
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