Elephant Arjuna, which turned a darling of locals by carrying the howdah in the course of the well-known Mysuru Dasara procession eight instances, died on Monday after being attacked by a wild tusker in Hassan district, stories mentioned. Arjuna was 63.
Arjuna was being utilized by the Karnataka Forest Division for an operation to catch rogue wild elephants when the face-off reportedly occurred. The wild tusker attacked Arjuna throughout an operation close to Yeslur in Sakaleshpur, The Hindu mentioned in a report.
The target of the Forest Division was to seize the troublesome wild elephants roaming the Sakaleshpur, Alur, Belur and Yeslur ranges of Hassan. Nonetheless, the operaton stands known as off followung Arjuna’s loss of life, the each day mentioned.
Arjuna suffered grievous accidents to the abdomen within the conflict that occurred within the morning and breathed his final within the afternoon, the each day added.
Arjuna carried the howdah a complete of eight instances till 2019. The jumbo was relieved of the responsibility that 12 months contemplating his age. In line with native media stories, it’s the lead elephant that will get to hold the celebrated howdah (additionally known as Amabari) in the course of the processions.
Though it was within the second decade of the twenty first century that Arjuna began carrying the howdah, the elephant turned a part of the Mysuru Dasara procession within the Nineteen Nineties, Udayavani mentioned in a report.