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    President holds special poojas at Somawathi Raja Maha Vihara

    June 11, 2014

    President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Somawathi Rajamaha Vihara and attended to religious observances  yesterday (10)..

    The President held a special Gilanpasa  Pooja to the Sacred Tooth Relic and a Kapruka Pooja to the sacred Somawathi Chaitya and also performed religious rites at the Bodhi.

     

    Thereafter the Maha Sangha including the Chief Incumbent of the Vihara Ven.Pahamune Sri Sumangala Nayake Thero chanted seth pirith and invoked blessings on the President. The President offrered Pirikara to Ven.Pahamune Sri Sumangala Nayake Thera and inquired into the well being of the Thera.

     

    The President also engaged in conversation with the devotees who were present at the Somawathi Sacred area.

     

    Maha Sanga including  Ven.Niyangoda Vijithasiri Anunayaka Thera of the Malwatu Chapter, Ministers Maithripala Sirisena, Bandula Gunawardena, S.B.Dissanayake, Nirmala Kothalawala, Deputy Ministers Chandrasiri Sooriyarachchi, Siripala Gamlath, M.K.D.S. Gunawardena, Member of Parliament Roshan Ranasinghe, Presidential Chief of Staff Gamini Senarath, Secretary to the Ministry of Highways W.R.Premasiri were apresent at the occasion. (KH/SI)

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