While working in the village of Gada Balabhadrapur on the banks of the Daya River in India’s state of Odisha, archaeologists unearthed a three-foot-tall sculpture of an elephant dating to the third ...

Archaeologists in eastern India have unearthed a statue of an elephant they think was carved about 2,300 years ago, when Buddhism was the main religion in the region. The statue is about 3 feet (1 ...

A painted miniature on a palm-leaf manuscript depicting the story of Nalagiri and Buddha. Nalagiri, a ferocious elephant, was sent by Devadatta to kill Buddha while he was gathering his daily alms in ...

Elephants feature prominently in religious and national iconography in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, whose national religion credits the jumbos with embodying the supreme qualities of the Buddha ...