This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the elephants, with 8000 others, resort in the rainy season, while in the hot season they he among the roots of the banian tree. Near the lake, the sugar cane grows as high as an areca tree. There are plantains as large as an elephant's trunk, and lotus flowers the size of the head of a plough.f There are lions in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the elephants, with 8000 others, resort in the rainy season, while in the hot season they he among the roots of the banian tree. Near the lake, the sugar cane grows as high as an areca tree. There are plantains as large as an elephant's trunk, and lotus flowers the size of the head of a plough.f There are lions in the Himala-wana of four kinds: trina, kala, pandu, and kesara. The trina is dove-coloured, and in shape like a cow. It feeds on grass. The kala is like a black cow, and feeds on grass. The pandu is of a yellow colour (like a priest's robe), and in shape is like a cow; it feeds on flesh. The kesara has its mouth, the tips of its nails, and the extremities of its feet, red, like sealing-wax; three lines run from the head along the back, as if drawn by the pencil of a painter; his mane is of thick hair, like a rough mantle worth a laksha of money; and in other parts of his body his colour is like fine flour or the powder of chanques. He is called murga-raja, or the king of beasts. Issuing from a golden, silver, or gem-like cave, he goes forth, either because he is tired of darkness and wishes for light, or for purposes of nature, or in search of food, or Sara Sangaha, Siirattha Pipani. f Sara Sangaha. prompted by passion. When going in search of food, he stands on a rock, or some other elevation, places his hind legs evenly, spreads his frontlegs before him, drawsforward the hind part of his body, bends his back, breathes with a noise like the thunder, and shakes the dust from his body. In the same place he runs to and fro, like a young calf, at this time appearing like a fire-brand whirled round in the night. In compassion towards other beasts, he looks round and roars; at which time the elephants, bulls, and buffaloes, which are on mountains, or...
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