kandyan dance

It is a Kandyan Cultural Dance mainly known in Sri Lanka as "Wes Dance" to go deeper into the meaning of "Wes" According to legend, the three shamans came to the island as a result of a trick of the god Śakra in order to cure the king, Panduwasdev, who was suffering from a mysterious illness. The king was said to be suffering from a recurring dream in which a leopard was directing its tongue towards the king, believed to be as a black magic of Kuweni, the first wife of the king Vijaya. After the performance of the Kohomba kankariya the illness vanished, and many natives adopted this so called WES dance.