Tlio Temple of tlu l Holy Tooth :it Kandy, which the Prince of Wales visited, contains the famous Tooth oi Hnddha, which was taken to Ceylon in .‘til A-.l). I>y a fugitive Indian Princess. who, for safety, carried it in the coils of lier hair. The relic is a piece of ivory about 2in lone;, and looks more like the tusk of some wild animal than a human tooth. It is contended _ by some upholders of the relic’s genuineness that what is now seen is merely an ivory ease, within which the real tooth is kept.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 8
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