Dewol madu shanthkarmaya
There are many shantikarma belonging to the low country tradition. Among the shanthikarma performed for god, devils & Planets gods "Devol Madu Shanthikarmaya" considered the most important shanthikarmaya for gods.
This Devol Madu Shanthikarmaya is popularly celebrated as an annual feast in Pathwini dewalaya. This shanthikarmaya is also knows as "Gam Maduwa" when the village is blessed on the Pathwini devalaya & the Devol god occupies a prominent place in the yagaya.
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The story of Devol Madu shanthikarmaya is related to King Seerimana. In the Chola Empire, the king's garden was deserted and the king's orders were executed by the to kill the pregnant sacks. While pursuing these sacks, he slipped into a pond near the sack and died of hatred for the king. Later, the bull was born in the same pond. One day while the king was watching the garden, he broke a beautiful blue lily in a nearby pond and smelled it. The little frog, hiding under the flower, instantly plunged into the king's nose pierced, causing the king to fall sick. The king had a severe headache, and the doctors treated him with various remedies, but there was no cure. In time the king saw a beautiful woman in a dream. It was now known to the ancestors of the king, who thought that the king had seen in his dreams the goddess Pathwini and that the king had a curse on her. In order to overcome the curse, the Brahman’s idea was to go to a country with Buddhism and pay homage to the goddess Pathwini . History records that the first Devol Madhu Yoga was held at Sri lanka, the ideal country. As a result of this, the king's headache was healed and legends tell us that from that time on, the Devol Madu shanthikarmaya was established in Sri Lanka as well.
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