Brihadyatra 21.4

21.4

tāmrauṣṭhatāluvadanāḥ kalaviṅkanetrāḥ snigdhonnatāgradaśanāḥ pṛthulāyatāsyāḥ.

Elephants with copper-coloured lips, palate, and mouth, eyes like a sparrow, glossy and elevated tusk-tips, and a broad and long mouth, / with a arched, elevated, long, hidden, and submerged spine, and frontal globes like a tortoise covered with sparse single hairs,