Warm send-off accorded for Dasara elephants
The Hindu
They head back to jungle camps
Elephants from the jungle camps which shored up Mysuru Dasara with their presence and took part in the famed Jamboo Savari, were accorded a ceremonial send-off from the palace on Sunday.
Special prayers were held for their collective welfare and safe return next year besides felicitations to the mahouts and kavadis or assistants manning the elephants.
The elephants led by howdah elephant Abhimanyu lined up for the send-off and a priest chanted hymns and performed ‘mangalarathi’to them. Prayers over, the elephants received plantains, jaggery and munched on them unmindful of the surrounding crowd which took selfies.
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