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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 ...
Double-barrel .50 caliber (13mm) howdah pistol made in Germany Breech of the same pistol open for loading. This particular weapon was made for a left-handed user. The howdah pistol was a large-calibre handgun, often with two or four barrels, used in Africa and India from the beginning of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century during the British Empire era.
Fig. 6. Antique steel hook used by elephant riders of the Mughal Empire Mahout washing his elephant. Temple in Kanchipuram. The most common tools used by mahouts are chains and the aṅkuśa (goad, also ankus [3] or anlius) – a sharp metal hook used as guide in the training and handling of the elephant.
Howdah (carriage positioned on the back of an elephant or camel) Pall-bearer to carry a casket during a funeral procession; Gurney; References
Drona (c. 1936 – 1998) was one of the lead Dasara Elephants of the Jamboo Savari of Mysore Dasara.He carried the Golden Howdah for a record 18 years consecutive years between 1981 and 1997, before being electrocuted while grazing in 1998. [2]
Arjuna (born c. 1959 - 4 December 2023) was an Asian elephant who, from 2012 to 2019, was the lead elephant and the carrier of the Golden Howdah at the Mysore Dasara. [2] He was named after Arjuna, the third of the Pandava brothers from the Hindu epic Mahabharatha.
Golden Howdah atop the leading elephant during Dasara. The Golden Howdah,'ಚಿನ್ನದ ಅಂಬಾರಿ'(elephant seat or Chinnada Ambari in Kannada) is a howdah, the carrier mounted on the leading elephant during the Jamboo Savari (Elephant Procession) of the famous Mysore Dasara.
He succeeded Drona as the carrier of the Golden Howdah. Balarama was not the first choice to carry the Howdah after Drona. Elephant Arjuna, a 44-year-old bull weighing 5,600 kilograms (12,300 lb) was supposed to be the carrier of the howdah, but was sidelined for accidentally killing a Mahout.