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RELUCTANT ELEPHANT
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normal routine! Every day, it would be up on its feet with a mere prod from his
then walk to the pond and allow the mahout to wash and scrub it. Back at the sta
sugarcane, jaggery and fruits. Then it would let the mahout apply vibhuti and sea
forehead and trunk. Then it would kneel and allow the cloth to be thrown overit and
on its back. Once ready, it would walk to the temple gopuram and wait with the
priests' call came.
(4) People visiting the temple would offer it bananas and coconut. Some, who wanted
would offer it coins as it touched their heads lightly with its trunk. When it was
procession, it would kneel so that the idol could be placed on the mount. Then it mult
the compound led by the temple musicians and followed by the jostling crowd.
(5) Today, Kesavan was in no mood to follow this daily regimen.
(6) The mahout, unhappy at the failure of the morning's procession, went home for breaks
found Gopu, his son, still playing. He asked his wife why Gopu had not gune ten
explained that the child had just returned from a holiday and needed a little breakin
his routine. Gopu was a good student and his mother was confident that he would
schedule on his own.
spaces unfettered by thronging humans.
(1) "Where is Kesavan." yelled the head priest as the time to take the idols around: Vhich
nearing. There was no sign of the bedecked pachyderm at the tower gate.
(2) The mahout came running to say that the animal was off-colour. It had refused to..
for the ritual bath or to take the food offered. It would also not allow cloth to be the
(7) Suddenly, the mahout understood why Kesavan had been so recalcitrant that morning
returned from a month-long camp at Mudumalai, where it had a great time ama
(8) Kesavan, like Gopu, probably needed a period of adjustment before it resumed its nami
*Thana is a Sanskrit term for a wir of time or shadows
mahout told the priest that he could not understand his ward's petulance. He en
(3) The mahout returned to the elephant shed and found Kesavan still sulking. Whates.
hours long. The day is divided in eight parts - 4 prochemes for a​

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