| Show LEGENDS OF THE ELEPHANT many and wonderful are the tale told concerning its virtues virtue and its wisdom naturally we talked first about elephants ants of which lie he was almost us As childishly fond as 1 I but in contrast to my poor knowledge he possessed the rich lore of a man who had not only observed eathl tor for many years with loving interest but had also listened to the tales of mahout and nd from stain slain to ceylon he poured out a hundred gifts from an apparently inexhaustible store ue he told of roundups round ups in ID burma when the wild herds are driven into gigantic corrals to be tamed for the service of puny man ban then thea turning to the names bestowed by doting mahouts on these aber colossal darlings darll ngo he pointed out that in this nomenclature of affection lotus or lily or pearl was only a commonplace mon place while even eien silver star and golden joy seemed inadequate folk tales too he repeated among them the narra narrative dve of the old wise elephant that used to be sent out from a certain city the morning after the kings death to bring back in its be jeweled howdah bodah the man it had bad chosen as successor to the throne finally just us as we ave were leaving the bank of the stream lie he spoke of the part played by the elephant to ID the story of him who bec bertinia tinia the light of asia before the birth of Gau gautama tania destined to be the savior of mankind his mother dreamed that a six eli rayed raved fear from heaven entered her right side a and nd of this the token was a white elephant with six perfect luks again in the prophetic vision of ills his father the second fear was ten huge sliver silver tusked elephants signifying the ten great gifts of wisdom in strength whereof the prince should shake the world in budihas Budd has lias middle years an enemy sought to take his life by sending him a raging elephant but the animal recognized the good head of the venerable omniscient one and stood in peaceful adoration before the divino divine arin magazine |
