Show LEGENDS OF THE ELEPHANT Many and Wonderful Are the tho Tales Told Concerning IU Its Virtues Virtue and It its Ita Wisdom W lly wo we e talked first about elephants ele ele- of at which he was almost as QI childishly fond and as I. I But in contrast to m my poor knowledge he possessed the rich lore o of a man who had not only oh observed ernd for tor many years with loving 10 Interest but had also listened listened lis lis- to the lie tales of mahout and shi kari from rom Sam Sarn to Ceylon He poured out a hundred gifts from tram an apparently apparent apparent- J ly Inexhaustible store He lie told of ot ups round In Burma when the wild herds hers arc driven Into gigantic corrals to be tamed for or the service of at puny pun man Then turning to the names bestowed be- be stowed by doting mahouts on these colossal darlings he pointed out that In this nomenclature of ot affection Lo IJO- Lotus tUN or LIl Lily or Pearl was only a commonplace commonplace commonplace com com- while even e Silver Star and anel Golden JO Joy seemed Inadequate Folk tales too he repeated among them the narrative of the wise elephant that t used to to be sent out from a certain certain tain eft city the morning after the kings king's death to bring back In Its b bejeweled howdah the man It had hatI chosen as successor successor suc sue cessor to the throne Finally Just Justas as we were leaving len the bank of or the stream he spoke of ot the part played by bythe the till elephant In the star story of at him who became the L Light ht of oC Asia Before the birth of oC Gautama destined to he be the savior sa of mankind his mother dream dream- dreamed ed fd that a rayed sir tar r-tar from heaven hea entered her right side and of or this star tor the token was a n white elephant with six perfect tusks Again Agnin In the prophetic vision Islon of at his father the second second second sec sec- ond Fear was ten hu huge e tusked silver elephants signifying the ten great rent gifts of ot wisdom In strength th whereof tune the prince should shake the world In Buddha's middle years an nn enemy tiou sought ht to take his life b by sending n against him a 8 rn raging elephant but hut th the animal recognized the good head of ot the Venerable Omniscient One and stood In peaceful adoration before the divine II r Aa pr on A Magazine |