Nadungamuwa Raja
Domesticated in Weliweriya, Gampaha
- 3.20m
- Height
The tallest tamed tusker in Sri Lanka and the main casket bearer of the Kandy Esala Perahera, carrying the Sacred Tooth Relic for more than a decade. He walked about 90 km to Kandy each year under an Army escort. Declared a national treasure, he is now preserved at the Colombo National Museum.
- Born
- 1953
- Died
- 7 March 2022
- Age at death
- 69
- Also known as
- Nadungamuwe Vijaya Raja
- Birthplace
- Mysore Palace, India
- Arrival in Sri Lanka
- Gifted as a calf to a Sri Lankan native physician, together with the young tusker later known as Gangaramaya's Navam Raja
- Earlier keeper
- Herbert Wickramasinghe, former MP for Bandaragama
- Owners
- Dharmavijaya family, from 1978; later Dr. Harsha Dharmavijaya
- Mahout
- Wilson Kodittuwakku, known as Kalu Mama
- Perahera
- Kandy Esala Perahera, 2005–2021
- Journey to Kandy
- About 90 km on foot, 25–30 km a day, mostly at night
- Lineage
- Described as belonging to the Saddhantha kula
- Honours
- National treasure; Rs. 15 stamp (2019)
- Place of death
- Weliweriya
