Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c43.s3.t13.24

v2.c43.s3.t13.24

Gajamuktā or elephant-pearl, often described in the Sanskrit literature, is a pearl-shaped growth found in the elephants’ forehead. In *Navaratnaparīkṣā* (*NRP*, 62; also *MM*, 252), it is mentioned that this kind of pearl ‘originates in the head of the elephants of Kāmboja (Cambodia) and is as large as the fruit of the Emblic myrobalan, heavy and more yellow, but not more lustrous than the other kinds’: