MAKE A MEME View Large Image Kipling cover art.jpg The elephant would be a reference to Airavat the elephant of Indra the king of the Hindu gods equivalent of the Greek deity Zeus the elephant is seen carrying a lotus flower It is the mount of Indra and the Gaja ...
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Keywords: Kipling cover art.jpg The elephant would be a reference to Airavat the elephant of Indra the king of the Hindu gods equivalent of the Greek deity Zeus the elephant is seen carrying a lotus flower It is the mount of Indra and the Gaja Sanskrit word for elephant or Gajaraj kingly elephant was a respected and majestic figure associated with intelligence and wisdom and also fidelity The deity Shiva's elder son Ganesha the Roman Janus is similar has an elephant head and is associated with writing he is said to have personally helped in putting the epic Mahabharata into written script while its sage-composer Vyasa was narrating it aloud but the elephant-image shown in the seals on Rudyard Kipling's book is not Ganesha it is Airavat Two images from the part of the covers of books by Rudyard Kipling Methuen Co 1919 and Macmillan Co 1930 Images scanned by User Dabbler to illustrate the article on Kipling I created this image from two images that are in the public domain as copyright has expired S Balakrishnan Creative Consultant New Delhi The artist is probably Lockwood Kipling Rudyard Kipling's father Dabbler Original upload log page en wikipedia Kipling_cover_art jpg 2011-09-12 16 48 Quibik 460×227× 66727 bytes <nowiki>removed coherent noise from the right image</nowiki> 2006-09-26 23 48 Dabbler 460×227× 54800 bytes <nowiki>Two images from the part of the covers of books by Rudyard Kipling Methuen Co 1919 and Macmillan Co 1930 Images scanned by User Dabbler to illustrate the article on Kipling </nowiki> 2006-09-26 22 57 Dabbler 460×227× 177724 bytes <nowiki>Two images from the part of the covers of books by Rudyard Kipling Methuen Co 1919 and Macmillan Co 1930 Images scanned by User Dabbler to illustrate the article on Kipling </nowiki> Uploaded with UploadWizard Rudyard Kipling Swastikas
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