[1] Indiraja is a main casket bearer of the Kandy Esala Perahera, an annual religious procession held to pay homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha, at the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in which he carried the main casket many times.
Since then Indiraja carried the casket of the Sacred Tooth Relic in the Esala Perahera for more than 20 years.
In 2014, Indiraja was attacked by another elephant on a side at the corner of Kotugodella Street.
The incident occurred at Vilbawa in the Kurunegala district on the banks of a tank where the elephants had been relaxing before the Perahera of Vilbawe Paththini Devala.
Later, he was transferred to the Kandy Hospital but died two days without regaining consciousness.