[INDOLOGY] mythologies of the pearl

Roland Steiner steiner at staff.uni-marburg.de
Fri Apr 26 09:45:09 UTC 2024


> This is only incidental observation, but I would like to draw your  
> attention to a topos that makes pearls flow from the split temples  
> of rutting elephants.

Cf. Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: "Gajamauktika: Poetic convention and  
reality". In: Bulletin d'Études Indiennes 9 (1991), pp. 195-202.

Best regards,
Roland Steiner



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