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    Characteristics of Asian Elephants from Ancient Sanskrit Texts
    (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Godbole, M.; Sumant, S.
    Elephants have been the center of discussion in the ancient Sanskrit veterinary texts such as Hastyāurveda and Mātaṅgalīlā. These texts focus on diseases of elephants and their cure. Texts such as Mṛgapakṣiśāstra, is a treatise that deals with many animals, including elephants, their characteristics as well as their types. Naturally, all these texts mention the characteristics of elephants in the beginning. Elephants being an important part of warfare, the texts dealing with State Affairs such as Arthaśāstra also discuss the characteristics of elephants. The Encyclopedic Treatise such as Bṛhatsaṁhitā is also not an exception when it states the characteristics of elephants in its 67th chapter. The present paper will consult all these treatises and will try to state the characteristics of Asian Elephants seen in ancient Sanskrit texts.
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    Characteristics of Asian Elephants from Ancient Sanskrit Texts
    (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Godbole, M.; Sumant, S.
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    MâtaEgalîlâ: An Ancient Text on Elephant Science
    (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sumant, S.; Godbole, M.
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    Mātaṅgalīlā: An Ancient Text on Elephant Science
    (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sumant, S.; Godbole, M.
    Mātaṅgalīlā is an ancient treatise on the science of elephants composed by an otherwise unknown Nīlakaṇṭha. The author hails from the Southern Indian State of Kerala. The manuscripts discovered by T. Ganapatishastri are from the 18th CE. The text written in Sanskrit language deals with various aspects of elephants in 12 sections such as the creation of veterinary science for elephants on earth, the types of elephants according to their time of birth, the auspicious and inauspicious characteristics of elephants, their life-span, their body structures and so on. Present paper will study all these aspects dealt with in this text and will try to apply them to Asian Elephants.