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perahera|pɛrəˈhɛrə|
Also perahar, perahära.
[Sinhalese perahera protection, safety.]
In Sri Lanka: a procession, orig. of a religious (Hindu, later also Buddhist) character, of praise or thanksgiving, or of intercession.
1681R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iii. iv. 78 That they may..honour these Gods, and procure their aid and assistance, they do yearly in the Month of June or July, at a New Moon, observe a solemn feast and general Meeting, called Perahar. 1817in R. Pieris Sinhalese Social Organization (1956) iii. 135 Perhära..is a very ancient ceremony in commemoration of the birth of the god Vishńu. Ibid. 136 Five days having expired, another ceremony, an important and essential part of the perahära, commences..which lasts five days more. Ibid. 137 The ceremony of perahära is continued up to the day of the full moon... On the night of the full moon..the shrine is carried in the procession. 1913L. Woolf Village in Jungle v. 113 Last night we took him in the perahera, and called upon the god to hear us. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 170 But the best is the Pera-hera, at midnight, under the tropical stars..the Pera-hera procession, flambeaux aloft in the tropical night. 1971Ceylon Daily News 17 Sept. 1/3 He will be taken in a perahera to the avasa where a felicitation meeting is to be held. 1974Oxf. Jun. Encycl. (rev. ed.) I. 102/2 The principal occasion is the Perahera, a great annual pageant in Kandy, when a relic, reputed to be a tooth of Gautama Buddha, is carried about the town in grand procession on the back of a gorgeously caparisoned elephant. |