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A certain elephant used often to pass through the bazaar, 

 or market place, where a woman who there sold herbs used 

 to give him a handful as he passed her stall. This elephant 

 afterward went mad, and, having broken his fetters, took 

 his way furiously through the market place, whence all the 

 people fled as quickly as possible to get out of his way. 



Elephant Figure formed by a combination of Arabic letters. 

 Example of the so-called "tugra" designs. 

 — From The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, 1914. 



Among these was his old friend, the herb woman, who, in 

 her haste and terror, forgot to take away her little child. 

 On coming to the place where this woman used to sit, the 

 elephant stopped, and seeing the child among the herbs he 

 took it up gently in his trunk and laid it carefully in a stall 

 under the projecting roof of a house hard by, without do- 

 ing it the smallest injury, and then continued his furious 

 course. 



The same writer relates as a proof of the wonderful con- 



