Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s6.24

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c14.s6.24

Verse 20: "had gone to heaven from his elephant's shoulder": This euphemistically means that he died in battle (not, as Bühler 15 n. 20, "that he fell from his elephant and broke his neck, or merely that he exchanged his princely pomp for a residence in heaven").

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