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Mr. Corse’s Observations on the 
dauntelah , to the nearly straight tusks of the mooknab , which 
point directly downwards. 
When a danntelah has never had but one tusk, and this of the 
pullung sort, he is said to be a goneish or ganesa * and will sell 
to the Hindoo princes for a very high price, to be kept in state, 
and worshipped as a divinity. I have seen elephants apparently 
of this kind ; but, when accurately examined, the tusk wanting 
appeared to me to have been lost by accident, so that I cannot 
say I ever saw a male which had originally only one tusk. 
A second variety of the danntelah is, when the large tusks 
point downwards, projecting only a little way beyond the trunk; 
he is then said to have soor or choor daunt.-\ 
A third variety is the puttel-dauntee , whose tusks are straight, 
like those of the mooknab, only much longer, and thicker. 
A fourth variety is the ankoos-dauntee ,\ where one tusk grows 
nearly horizontal, like the pullung- daunt, and the other like the 
puttel-daunt. 
Besides these, the elephant-keepers notice other varieties, 
which are less distinct. 
All these tusks, in the male, are fixed very deep in the upper 
jaw ; and the root or upper part, which is hollow and filled 
with a core, goes as high as the insertion of the trunk, round 
the margin of the nasal opening to the throat ; which opening 
is just below the protuberance, of the forehead. 
* Ganesa is the name of the Hindoo god of wisdom, who is represented with a head 
like an elephant’s, with only one tooth. (See Asiatic Researches, Vol. I. Art. On the 
Gods of Greece, Italy, and India.) 
f Soor or cboor-daunt signifies hogs’ teeth ; from the tusks having some distant 
resemblance to those in the lower jaw of the hog. 
t Ankoos. signifies a crook, and is particularly applied to the weapon the driver^ 
use to govern the elephant, to which these irregular tusks bear some resemblance. 
