Matara elephant stables in Sri Lanka


Matara elephant stables
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Owner
Address Kachcheri
Place Matara
Country Sri Lanka

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Record history
History of updates2010-08-30

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Description

Matara elephant stables, located at Kachcheri, in Matara, Sri Lanka .


Comments / picturesClose to where Matar guest house is situated today.

In 1697 there were 97 elephants in the stables at Matara. Baldeus wrote, in 1704, of a place in Matara where captured wild elephants were tamed before they were sold to buyers who came from the Coramandel Coast and Bengal. A very large stable had been built to house these animals. These stables at Matara are the site of the present Kachcheri. The animals apparently were bathed twice a day in a nearby river, very likely the Nilwala. Tame elephants were used as monitors and trainers...

...Pybus states that the Dutch had to obtain permission from the king of Kandy to capture elephants which were within his domain. The king generally agreed to the Dutch capturing 20 to 30 animals each year, but the Dutch constantly exceeded this figure, capturing around 150 each year and 200 in one year. They continued to use the elephant stables at Matara referred to earlier.

Jayantha Jayewardene

References for records about Matara elephant stables

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Matara elephant stables, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1408. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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