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He was donated to the Guruvayur temple by the royal family of Nilambur on 4 January 1922. [2] Standing over 3.28 meters tall, he was one of the tallest elephants that lived in Kerala and was known for his devout behavior. As Keshavan's name and fame increased, the Devaswom board gave him the unique title Gajarajan (King of elephants) in 1973.
The documentary exposes the ugly reality regarding elephant cruelty in Kerala and how the elephants are treated by their mahouts in an unfavourable way, with emphasis on the cultural festivals. [5] It further elaborates on the lives of prominent individual elephants including Thiruvambadi Lakshmi, Thechikottukavu Ramachandran , Ollukkara ...
In a village, an elephant is brought into the Guruvayur temple as a deity. Soon, some villagers show extreme devotion while others indulge in exploitation ...
The statue of Guruvayur Keshavan placed at Guruvayur Temple premise. Punnathurkotta was once the palace of a local ruler, now survived by his son R Unnikrishnan, grandsons Madhusudana R Menon & Madhavan R Menon, but the palace grounds are now used to house the elephants belonging to the Guruvayoor temple, and has been renamed Anakkotta (meaning "Elephant Fort").
Nagungamua Raja saying goodbye to his second owner in 1978. Raja was born c. 1953 in Mysore, India. [2] [4] The village of Nadungamuwa has been home to temple elephants since 1917, when Livnis Perera, the grandfather of Raja's final owner, Harsha Dharmavijaya, bought an elephant in order to take his younger brother in a procession to the Balummahara Godagedara Pirivena, Perera.
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To this day (2024), important temples, especially in South India, keep their own temple elephants, which are acquired either by purchase or as gifts. [14] However, it is possible that elephants declared as a ‘gift’ to a temple at the end of the 20th or in the 21st century were actually acquired underhand on the illegal black market, but officially given as a ‘gift’ - this has been a ...
The Legend has it that Lord Brahma was the first divinity to design a forehead embellishment for Lord Indra's white war elephant, the Airavata. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each bubble depicts pancha-bhoothas, thrimoorthies, navagrahas, ashta-vasus, saptarishis, moola-ganapathi etc.