Bahirawakanda Temple

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BahirawaKanda is a wonderful place for visitors to see the natural wonders of the region, and from there you can see the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, as well as the city of Kandy and the surrounding mountains.

Ven. Ampitiye Dharmarama Thero began work on the temple and the large Buddha statue in 1973, and it was completed and opened to the public in January 1993. This mountain is synonymous with many beliefs and legends, and because of these beliefs and the legends behind it. was called Bahirawa Kanda.

Many traditions surround the mountain of Bahirawa Kanda, which translates to "Gnome Mountain," and how this monument came to be. Two of these stories stand out.

Legend has it that the name of the mountain is 'Gnome Mountain' or 'Devil's Hill'. According to history, there was a time when the mountain made strange noises and swallowed the people who lived there in fear. They suspected it was the work of an evil gnome and sought a way to calm it down. At this time, a real gnome entered the palace and assumed the position of one of the ministers, unknown to everyone.

Sensing an opportunity, the 'priest' told the king that if a beautiful virgin was sacrificed every year, the gnome would be satisfied, and thus a superstition was born. But one year, the sacrifice was suggested as the girlfriend of the son of the false minister.

The people of the village took him in the middle of the night and took him to the top of the mountain, and left him there. When the minister's son found out about this in the morning, he immediately went out to save him. He defeated the gnome, his father, who came for his own evil purposes and returned to the village. When the treacherous son immediately makes a gnome sound, the worried people begin to worry and fear that saving the town has angered the gnome (He is, after all, a gnome, the offspring of the first gnome.). The villagers understood this about accepting the sacrifice, and the couple left the village that night rather than risk being found out.

Another story tells of an old temple dedicated to the first god of protection, Bahiravar, which was built during the Nayakkar Dynasty. In ancient times in India, the traditional ways of worshiping this god often included animal sacrifices, however, human sacrifices were never used. However, due to some reasons, it seems that this ceremony was wrong in the process of the place, and the priests of this temple threatened the wrath of the god unless hundreds of virgins were killed soon.

The foolish people of the region sacrificed many girls and lived in fear of the wrath of the god. However, this was stopped when the chief of the Royal Mahouts was kidnapped for a sacrifice. Dunuwilla Gajanayake Nilame, the name of the man, used his authority in the palace and boldly freed him, causing a huge commotion that disrupted the town ceremony. This indicated the end of the fear and superstition of the people, and eventually the temple was abandoned.

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