Nadungamuwa Raja

Nadungamuwa Vijaya Raja (, ), also known as simply Nadungamuwa Raja ( – 7 March 2022), was an Indian elephant. For more than a decade, he was the main casket bearer of the procession of Esala. Nadungamuwa Raja was the largest tame elephant in Asia. When Raja died, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that Raja a national treasure.

Nadungamuwa Raja died in the early morning of 7 March 2022 at the age of 68/69 from a heart attack. The President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered that Raja's body be preserved as a stuffed body.

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Category:1953 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction
Category:Sri Lanka
Category:Individual elephants