Sri Lanka’s most revered temple and the No.1 attraction in Kandy, the Dalada Maligawa or Temple of the Tooth Relic, as the name suggests, houses a tooth of Lord Buddha.
Kept in a casket, the tooth is believed to have been picked up from the pyre of Lord Buddha and then brought to Sri Lanka by a princess who smuggled the tooth out in her hair.
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