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hastin Hastin is a term for elephant used in Vedic texts. Other terms for elephant include ibha and varana. == The elephant in the Rigveda == In Rig Veda 1.84.17 and 4.4.1. and probably other instances the Rig Veda seems to refer to elephants (e.g. Bryant 2001: 323), an animal that is native to South Asia. It has been speculated that some of these verses might be references to domesticated elephants.〔RV 4.4.1, 9.57.3 (where "the people deck him like a docile king of elephants"), 6.20.8; Talageri, Shrikant (2000)〕 In RV 1.64.7, 8.33.8 and 10.40.4, "wild" elephants are mentioned.
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