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Updated: May 9, 2025
"But knowing now the danger, I laughed in my beard, for Gunesh Tanti, this human tiger and slayer of innocent men, just as had been the tiger now slung across the back of my elephant, was fairly delivered into my hand. He who had come to trap me was himself entrapped. And thanks all to this little maid of the glen!
The talk through the Palace, aye, throughout the city, is all of the God of the Elephants, of the Terrible One who feeds his herd of demons on the flesh of men. The temple of Gunesh will be full indeed tonight. But alas! I am an ignorant man. "The gods know no country. The truth, Rama, the truth," said Barclay impressively. "Else thou art lost.
"Is he Krishna, think you? He is handsome enough to be the Holy One." "Who knows, daughter? It may be. Shri Krishn has many incarnations," said the old man solemnly. "Nay, I do not think that he is Krishna," remarked an elderly coolie. "It may be that he is another of the Holy Ones." "Perhaps he is Gunesh," ventured a younger man. "No; he bestrides Gunesh.
"At least, so it is reported in our district, though to me he seems a fool. But there all races and castes fear him. Curious tales are told of him. Some say that Gunesh, the Elephant-headed One, protects him. Others hold that he is Gunesh himself. Can it be so?" The Dewan smiled. "Since when hast thou believed in the gods again?" he asked. "Well, it is hard to know what is true or false.
Then he said: "Men of Lalpuri, who have come among these fools in thirst for blood. You have heard of me. You have seen my power. You see me. Go back to your city. Tell them there that I, who fed my elephants on the flesh of your comrades in the forest, shall come to them riding on my steed sacred to Gunesh. If they spare the evil counselors among them, then them I will not spare.
Wah! the sahib has gone mad, too," exclaimed an old Mohammedan. "He will never return alive," said another, shaking his head sorrowfully. Here Ramnath broke in indignantly: "My elephant is no shaitan. He is Gunesh, the god Gunesh himself. He will let no harm come to the sahib, who is safe under his protection." The other Hindus among the elephant attendants nodded agreement.
By the way, Ismail Khan says he permitted you to do it." "I doctored up his cuts. Besides, I'm used to elephants." "All the same you're the first sahib I've heard Of that Badshah has allowed to touch him. Do you know, the Hindus worship him. He's a Gunesh I supposed you noticed that. I've seen some of them simply go down on their faces in the dust before him and pray to him.
"How long have you been with it?" "Five years, Huzoor." "What is its name?" And indeed he is a badshah among elephants. No one but a Mussulman would treat him with disrespect. Your Honour sees that he is a Gunesh and worthy of reverence." The animal, which was a large and well-shaped male, possessed only one tusk, the right. The other had never grown.
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