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Kandy

Former capital of Sri Lanka from 1592 to 1815 and site of the Temple of the Tooth housing a tooth believed to belong to the Buddha. Every August in the Perahera festival the relic is carried on the back of an elephant around the city in a torchlight procession.

Source
A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)
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