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Hathi (हाथी ہاتھی Hāthī "Elephant"; Indian elephant) – the chief of the local elephants and keeper of the Jungle Law. Shere Khan (शेर खान شیر خان Śēr Khān , "Tiger King" (" Khan " is a common title of Indian Muslim lordship and royalty); Bengal tiger ) [ 2 ] – a vicious man-eating Bengal Tiger who is the ...
Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). Hathi is an elephant that lives in the Seeoni jungle. [1] Kipling named him after hāthī (हाथी), the Hindi word for "elephant".
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
7 Further reading. 8 External links ... Hathi (/ ˈ h ɑː t i /), derived from the Sanskrit hastin, is the Hindi word for 'elephant', an animal famed for its long ...
[12] [15] Black and White has both order and chaos, expressed through the story, illustrations, and design of the book. [12] The chaos of the story increases, reaching its climax when the only colors used are black on white on a page, before order is restored at the end of the stories and at the end of the book. [16]
Elephant with howdah. A howdah or houdah (Hindi: हौदा, romanized: haudā, derived from the Arabic هودج hawdaj which means 'bed carried by a camel') also known as hathi howdah (हाथी हौदा hāthī haudā), is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people ...
[1] [4] According to the Matangalila, Airavata was born when Brahma sang sacred hymns over the halves of the egg shell from which Garuda hatched, followed by seven more male and eight female elephants. Prithu made Airavata king of all elephants. One of his names means "the one who knits or binds the clouds" since myth has it that these ...
An abnormally large black cat who walks on his hind legs and carries a pistol. Being a member of the Devil's entourage, he is wicked and devious. He has a penchant for chess, vodka, and pickled mushrooms. [8] [9] Bombalurina: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: T. S. Eliot: A flirtatious red Queen with a white chest and black spots and marks ...