Despite heavy rains:

Massive crowd worship Dalada

ASELA KURULUWANSA, INDIKA POLKOTUWA and S. M. JIFFREY ABDEEN Kandy south group corr

Around one hundred and fifty thousand visited Kandy to worship the Dalada yesterday which was also the Poya day. It is reported that rains poured continuously for two hours with the commencement of the exposition of the sacred relics.

The notable feature was that devotees continued to remain in the queue uninterrupted for hours in the rain. The Maligawa Welfare Trust with the help of donations, distributed food for the participants.

The popular belief among people that when there is an exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic there is rain even during the worst of drought, has been proved beyond doubt this.

There has been heavy rain in Kandy since exposition began and this has in the afternoon after the exposition had begun, yesterday experienced one of the heaviest showers, but this did not deter the large crowds from lining up in streets to pay homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic at the Sri Dalada Maligawa.