Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Name the baby elephant

"I was born at the Dublin Zoo on 9 May, 2007. My wonderful keepers tell me that I am the first elephant ever born in the Republic of Ireland." RTÉ News> "Name the Elephant competition"

I think the "Dharma" for one baby elephant should be:

Adyapi

In one of the oldest verses recorded in the human language, that is in Sanskrit, every stanza of this very old poem, starts with "Adyapi" which means roughly "Even now I recall" or remember, in particular, the "pendulous breasts of the elephant" is what I remember from reading the very long poem in English translation.

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