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Gajarajan Guruvayur Keshavan (c.1912—2 December 1976) [1] [2] is perhaps the most famous and celebrated temple elephant in Kerala, India. He was donated to the Guruvayur temple by the royal family of Nilambur on 4 January 1922.
In 1954 at the age of 14 it was given to the Guruvayur temple. In Thrissur Puram , a regular presence, the elephant would spend the night at Thiruvambadi in the late 1990s. [ 4 ] Padmanabhan is also known for fetching the highest amount an elephant can fetch for a festival in Kerala at that time.
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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").
A famous elephant, named Guruvayur Kesavan, belonged to this temple. Elephants carry the deity during annual festival processions and ceremonial circumnambulations in the Hindu temples. The temple elephants are decorated with gold plated caparisons ("nettipattam"), bells, and necklaces. People mounted on the elephants hold tinselled silk ...
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Guruvayur Keshavan, Indian elephant associated with the Guruvayur temple in Kerala. The elephant was cited for exhibiting "extremely devout behaviour". [clarification needed] Heiyantuduwa Raja, carried the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha from 1989 to 2000. Lizzie, who, from 1916 to 1918, worked hauling goods in Sheffield in England.
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 ...