The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka by Rough Guide

Author:Rough Guide
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel
Publisher: Rough Guide
Published: 2010-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Sri Dalada Museum

Exit the back door of the Alut Maligawa and follow the signs up to the Sri Dalada Museum (Tooth Relic Museum; entrance included in ticket), situated on the first and second floors of the building and devoted to anything and everything concerned with the Tooth Relic itself. The first floor is dominated by a sequence of large and solemn busts of all the diyawardene nilambe (temple chiefs) from 1814 to 1985. Other exhibits include photos of the damage caused by the 1998 bombing, fragments of murals destroyed in the blast, a selection of (mainly colonial) documents relating to the Tooth Relic and Kandy, and a few old fabrics, including a selection of the enormous handkerchiefs designed for the royal noses of the kings of Kandy.

The more interesting second floor is largely occupied by the bewildering assortment of objects offered to the Tooth Relic at various times. These include all sorts of bowls and vases, fans, fancy jewellery, incense burners, foreign coins and votive offerings, including several given by former Sri Lankan presidents. The highlight is the gorgeous silk Buddha footprint which is said to have been offered to the temple in the reign of Kirti Sri Rajasinha by a visiting Thai monk on behalf of the king of Siam.

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