188 Captain Low’s Dissertation on White Elephants. 
The fortunate hunter who caught the animal is permitted to draw out a 
certain portion for himself of money from each of two heaps, the one of 
gold the other of silver. 
‘In a drawing in my possession of the Chinese guinary assemblage of 
deities, one of them is depicted as riding on a white elephant.* 
Amongst the seven precious things which belonged to Barommacuak, or 
CHAKKAPHATTA, was (according to the Bal Milinda) the famous diamond 
elephant, whose lineage may be traced from the Chatt,han, king of elephants. 
The Solar race had the appellation of “lords of the forest,” meaning ele- 
phants, in contradistinction to the Lunar race, or ‘ crocodiles,” ‘lords of 
the waters ;” and, at the death of Amenon, the sovereignty of the world is 
ficuratively said to have passed from the crocodiles to the elephants, A. M. 
1204. 
Sresoncnorts, or Sesostris, who was chief of the elephants, and son of 
Amanemes, conquered the world. And Manerrtuon says, that the fifth 
Egyptian dynasty was of elephant kings.t 
It may not seem here out of place if a few remarks are made regarding 
Next day the soothsayer told him that he must go to a distant forest to search for a princess 
called PratHom. He set off on a flying Pegasus, and met with the princess; and was married 
to her by a Rishi, her father. The happy couple were next day walking in the forest, when a 
Phran or bowman (huntsman) of the Raja killed Pura Sowart, and carried off his wife. The 
Rishi found the body, which he restored to life, by anointing it with holy oil. The Raja then 
went in quest of his wife, carrying with him some of the oil. He found a white elephant which 
had just been killed in a rencontre with a black one: and anointing the body restored it to life ; 
and it then obtained the victory, and regained its attendants from the black one. The Raja then 
mounted the white elephant, and proceeded to the temple Wiman nam krot. 
According to Maurice, armies of elephants (or men riding on elephants) mark the progress of 
Crisuna through the Thebaid and Ethiopia. And from the late Colonel Wilford’s learned 
Essays we find, that a river of Sanka Dwipa (supposed by him to mean Egypt) flowed from the 
temples of a huge white elephant. CrisHna slew him after a combat of six days, and a beau- 
tiful Yaksha sprung from the decapitated trunk. 
* Sir W. Jones describes the eight gods, who guard the eight quarters of the world, as 
borne on elephants. The elephant’s head, or mouth, gives birth to one of the great rivers of 
Hindustan. 
In the Asiatic Researches also, we find it stated that Viswa Duanva, son of KAMADEVA, 
saw in the Himala a white elephant of great size, having four tusks, which he chased to the burn- 
ing sands of Barbara, and there slew; when a beautiful youth sprung from the mangled body, after 
haying first assumed the appearance of a gigantic Racshasa. (Vide Asiatic Researches, vol. iii.) 
+ Key to Hindoo Chronology. 
