Dasara elephants accorded a warm farewell as they return to their respective jungle camps

Elephant Abhimanyu and company, the showstoppers of Dasara, who attracted lakhs of radical during the festival, were accorded a lukewarm farewell from the territory administration, present connected Sunday.

The 14 Dasara elephants were successful the metropolis since August 4 rehearsing for the Vijayadashmi procession which was held connected October 2.

The elephants got a two-day interruption aft the extremity of the festival and spent their clip strolling astatine the palace courtyard, too gracefully posing for photographs for tourists.

As quality dispersed that the Dasara elephants, who person a immense instrumentality basal successful Mysuru, were acceptable to depart, a ample assemblage descended connected the palace premises for a glimpse of the jumbos.With restrictions being lifted, the assemblage got their privation fulfilled.

The wood section and the territory medication had lined up a fewer much ceremonies for the elephants, immoderate of whom seemed to person got accustomed to the Dasara traditions.

A clergyman performed aarti for the duly adorned elephants, and chanted peculiar prayers for their corporate information and instrumentality for the festival adjacent year. After the formalities were completed, the elephants were offered sugarcane foodstuff and jaggery. The public, too, made offerings to the jumbos.

Following the puja and the aarti, the elephants lined up successful the backdrop of the palace, wherever some the nationalist and the media clicked their photographs. Relishing the attention, the jumbos seemed to nod their caput successful appreciation; astatine the bid of the mahouts, they often raised their trunks arsenic if to bid adieu to the assemblage and the city.

Following this, the elephants walked connected a tramp to committee the trucks waiting to transport them backmost to their respective jungle camps.

Elephants Abhimanyu, Bheema, and Srikanta returned to Mathigodu camp, whereas Dhananjaya, Prashanth, Kaveri, Gopi, Sugreeva, Kanjan, and Hemavathi headed backmost to the Dubare camp. Ekalavya was the lone jumbo from the Doddaharave camp; Lakshmi and Mahendra returned to Balle camp, portion Roopa was sent backmost to Bheemanakatte camp.

With the Dasara ceremonials completed for this year, it was clip for them to get involved in different duties similar combing operations and capturing errant elephants from the chaotic during a struggle situation.