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Hastin
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thumb|right|The people deck him like a docile king of elephants. ~ Rigveda
Hastin (हस्तिन्) is a term for 'elephant' used in Vedic texts. Other terms for 'elephant' include Ibha (इभ) and Vārana (वारण).
Quotes
The people deck him like a docile king of elephants.
Rigveda, 9, 57, 3, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889)
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian proverb, reported in The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom (2012), p. 71
External links
Category:Mammals
Category:Hindu mythology