Pranam Sundara kandam book 5 Valmiki Ramayanam says as elephants with the four tuskers: (Gomphotheres): as seen below:
triviSTapa nibham divyam divya naada vinaaditam | vaaji heSita samghuSTam naaditam bhuuSaNaiH tathaa || 5-4-26 rathaiH yaanaiH vimaanaiH ca tathaa gaja hayaiH shubhaiH | vaaraNaiH ca *catuH dantaiH shveta abhra* nicaya upamaiH || 5-4-27 bhuuSitam rucira dvaaram mattaiH ca mR^iga pakSibhiH | raakSasa adhipateH guptam aavivesha gR^iham kapiH || 5-4-28 26,27,28.. mahaakapiH= The great Hanuma; aavivesha= entered; guptam= secretly; raakshasaadhipateeH= Ravana's inner city; trivishhTapaHnibham= (which was like a) paradise; divyam= best one; vaajighoshhitasangushhTam= resonating with neighing of horses; tadhaa= and; naaditam= made noisy; bhuushhanaiH= with ornaments; radhaiH= by chariots; yaanaiH= by vehicles; vimaanaishca= and by aerial-cars; tadhaa= and; bhuushhitam= decorated by;; subhaiHhayagajaiH= by auspicious horses and elephants; swetaabranicayopamaiH= equalling a group of white clouds; vaaraNaishca= by great elephants; caturdantaiH= with four tusks; mR^igapakshibhiH= by animals and birds; mattaiH= in heat; ruciradvaaram= with a beautiful entrance; rakshitam= protected; yaatudhaanaiH= by raksasas; sumahaaviiraiH= with great strength; shahasrasheH= in thousands. The great Hanuma entered secretly Ravana's inner city which was equal to paradise, rendered noisy by neighing of horses and tinkling of ornaments, by chariots, vehicles and aerial-cars and decorated by auspicious elephants and horses and great elephants with four tusks and by birds and animals in heat. It had beautiful entrances and was protected by thousands of rakshasas with great strength. Fossil evidence and fibreglass reproductions of these species are on display at *Shivalik Fossil Park in Himachal Pradesh*, India. Legends of Ravana and Indra’s four-tusked elephants may be accurate if their real-life models lived in India before the end of the Ice Age. The events of the Ramayana are thought to have occurred at the end of the last Ice Age, according to *author Nilesh Oak*. It’s also feasible that a small number of four-tusked elephants lived until the Copper Age in a remote location, such as a hill country or an offshore. Ravana is claimed to have dwelt on the island of Lanka, which scholar Sai Papineni has identified as the Dholavira site of the Indus Civilization. Because the four-tusked elephants were close cousins of Indian elephants, they may have interbred, resulting in domesticated elephant lineages. another proof of the existence of the 4 tusked elephant is the below-mentioned verse in Valmiki’s Ramayan: *Sundara Kanda Sarga 4, Verse 26, 27.* *उत्तमम् राक्षसावासम् हनुमानवलोकयन् |* *आससादाथ लक्ष्मीवान् राक्षसेन्द्रनिवेशनम् ||* *चतुर् विषाणैर् द्विरदैः त्रिविषाणैः तथैव च |* *परिक्षिप्तम् असम्बाधम् रक्ष्यमाणम् उदायुधैः ||* this means that, Like the light and the Sun, Seetha and Rama became one. Rama was also seen riding a big elephant with four tusks and the size of a mountain, and he travelled with Lakshmana. KR IRS 7222 On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 06:37, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < [email protected]> wrote: > *AANA (ELEPHANT) PART1* > > Dear friends, > > Recently I read a lot of information about elephants in whatsApp. In some > North Indian states of India it is common nowadays to mate elephants and > also help them in delivery. In Assam many homes have elephants domesticated > like cow and oxen. Size of elephants is comparatively smaller there. > African elephants are larger than Asian elephants. I saw in whatsApp > picture how easily share autos cunningly moved and tourist buses waited far > away from elephants waiting for their vacating road on the way to Moonnar. > Passengers were keeping quiet without showing their face outside buses. > Surely many making frightened voice. > > In 2017, on a tour to Moonnar from Pollachi after attending a wedding > there, for caution the driver informed how we should be in the car if the > elephants blocked the road. My wife scared and asked – Is there no other > route to go to Moonnar? Driver said- There is a route from Ernakulam, which > is still more frequented by elephants. *He said, he would follow some > lorry, and it was safer since elephant would try to harm lorry if at all it > is of harming nature. *Really I was also scared, but did not show it > outside. Half the interest in going to Moonnar lost by driver’s caution. > Fortunately no elephant came to road in our trip either way. My son, > daughter in law and daughter calmed my wife, telling nothing would happen. > > On return trip driver showed a group of elephants standing about *300 > meters away* in a location. > > I do not how I developed interest in wooden elephants after I came to > Trivandrum on transfer. I had at least 20 wooden elephants of different > sizes kept in the show case. I kept one male, one female and one infant; > remaining I gave to guests. Thinking still larger one is required; my son > got two wooden elephants with all adorns for the new home in Chennai. > Whenever a wooden work is there in my home, I ask the carpenter to polish > the wooden elephants. > > About two years back or so I read in an iyer home in Palghat, an > elephant idol is made to the real size is installed in the entrance, made > in RCC and painted black-grey. Stomach portion made as hollow inside during > RCC work. It was also adorned with “Nettipattam”. I saved the image in > my laptop. > > I searched whether there was any posting on elephants by me earlier. > There was one dated 16-12-2012, with lot of responses. Important responses > were from Sri Venkatraman Perinthalmanna, Sri Subramoniam Kaipully matam > and Sri TNC Rangarajan. > > This is a fully edited version of the old posting, with some information > deleted, and many information added. Hope an interesting reading. > > Sincerely, > > Gopala Krishnan 07-02-2022. > > 1. REFERANCE TO ELEPHANTS EVEN BEFORE TRETHA YUGA. > > It is stated during the churning of milky ocean, among various things > appeared, one was a WHITE ELEPHANT. It was named EIRAVATHAM and Lord INDRA > took it for him. Since it has been differentiated as white elephant, there > would have been gray or black elephants even earlier. > > We have reference to the elephant in *Dwaparayuga*, Sree Krishna, > killing an elephant by name KUVALAYAPADA. Also there was an elephants > wing in the Mahabharatha war. > > *Even before yugas* in the legend of Mahaganapathi, a head of a lying > elephant was cut and added to the child created by Parvathi, to give him > life, after killed by Lord Siva. Hence the child became GAJANANA. > > 2. SIZE OF AN ELEPHANT. > > We have many animals in the world. If we create a list about the body > size of animals, after a gradual increase, there is a sudden peak in > increase for Elephants. This has made me to think about some other animals, > which has faced extinction in the world. > > 2A. MY CHART OF ANIMAL SIZES. > > From my basic zoological interest- > > 1. Animals like Rabbit, Jackal, Cat, Dog, and Monkey -gradually increase > in size. > > 2. Animals like Tiger, Lion, Goats, Ass, Deer, Cow, Buffalo, - gradually > increase in size from Monkey. > > 3. Animals like Horse, Rhinos, Camel, and Giraffe - gradually increase in > size from Buffalo. > > If we make a comparison, the height is gradually increasing among the > animals. The body width is not so much in increasing proportion. > > Now coming to the elephant, size of body and height are much more than > camel or Giraffe. > > 3. ATTRACTIVE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE ELEPHANT. > > No other animal has a nose as long and flexible as the trunk of the > elephant. Further the trunk also assists in eating food. But the trunk is > heavy. Recently on a Pondichery tour with family, we visited the Manakkula > vinayagar temple. The small elephant in front of the temple was blessing > devotees. I showed my head after keeping 10-00 rupees in its trunk. Cash > was collected by the mahout and elephant blessed me with its trunk keeping > on my head. It was as if keeping about *3 kg weight on head. * > > It is said the elephant does not know the real size and strength it has > very sharp in intelligence. The animal obeys the controls by mahout unless > it is in heat. I was listening to a documentary on it a few days back. It > automatically likes hearing and obeys some words, which has no meanings > like ISATTI AANAE. Similarly if a stick is placed on the feet, it would > not move forward. > > The elephant can stand more time comparing to other animals. > > Elephants wag their large ears to reduce the heat. If the ear is folded, > the elephant is told on heat. One of the information I received from member > Sri VenkatRaman. > > There is a difference in the growth of tusks. There is more growth in the > males comparing to she elephants. The she elephants do have growth called > “THEATTA”. Both male and female African elephants have tusks. > > While other animals are sensitive to touch the horns even after > domestication, elephants are not so sensitive. Whatever be our liking, a > cow does not like us to touch its horns. > > Further elephants cannot jump; bend more its body to pass through lanes. > > The eyes of the elephant are LEAST PROPORTIONAL to the body. I have > imagined, if the eyes are more proportionate and bigger, how terrible the > animal would have been to look at. > > Though such a big animal, it is sensitive to a small creature, the ants. > A group of ants entering in nose can kill such an elephant!!! > > 4. ELEPHANT SLEEP > > The elephant sleeps for smaller duration after about 2 PM in the night. > At that time, it lies down, folds its trunk and keeps inside the mouth. > > 5. THE COLOUR OF ELEPHANTS > > Elephants have dark gray body colour and some have black colour in > appearance. The ears vary in size. While seeing in Animal planet, the > African elephants have found to have very big ears, and lengthier and more > bend horns. > > It is not known, whether it is due to body heat, elephants like bathing > in water at its own. We can see forest elephants walking in to water and > pour water on body using the trunk in addition to drinking. > > *I will continue in next posting* > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1813750610.284878.1644196036158%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1813750610.284878.1644196036158%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopaKDcmyWzwdwDcwfENsJ7-b1g48psjjk7scwCNfQtWCg%40mail.gmail.com.
