Kap Planting Ceremony of Sri Dalada Pageant

• Generally a virgin milk tree( a tree which has not produced any fruit) is selected to make use for the kap ceremony.
• And in the first place after cleaning around the tree and it is bathed with fragrance water and smoke.
• Thereafter Kapurala of devalas invite that if any God is living in that tree to leave it since they would cut the tree on the following day for kap planting ceremony.
• Earlier they had used a branch of an Esala tree and now they use a branch of Jak tree or Rukaththana tree.
• Kapurala of four main devalas bedecked with thier official dress bathe the part of that branch with milk, honey and turmeric water and further wrap a coconut flower at one end with a white cloth.
• Thereafter they plant them within the premises of devalas.