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Elephant

Beings · Nature

Elephant as an animal people have named and used. Wisdom, Longevity, Good Luck — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Elephant is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats elephant among large land animals with ivory and drug chapters. A named elephant in that encyclopedia, not ivory as the material already walked and not a war-elephant dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Howdah is used in Elephant.

    Hobson’s Howdah article seats the framed seat or chair carried by an elephant — elephant furniture, not a camel litter alone.

    from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)

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  • Howdah umbrella is historically related to Elephant.

    Hobson-Jobson seats Howdah Umbrella in the material and craft neighborhood of elephant gear. Howdah Umbrella historically related to elephant by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

    from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)

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Islam

  • Elephant appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names the elephant in sura 105 (al-Fīl) among the Companions of the Elephant. A named elephant in that revelation, not Pliny’s elephant pharmacy already walked and not ivory alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Buddhist traditions

  • Elephant appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names elephants among royal and heavenly mounts of the assembly’s honor-speech. A named elephant in that sūtra, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not a war-elephant dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Vedic tradition

Hellenic religion

  • Elephant appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Bacchic eastern speech seats India among Liber’s conquests where elephant-country marks the triumph’s reach. A named elephant climate in that poem, not a Roman circus dump and not every pachyderm dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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sources

  • Natural History · Pliny the Elder

    Pliny, Naturalis Historia.

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.

  • Metamorphoses · Ovid

    Ovid, Metamorphoses.

  • Hobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)

    Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).