SSC
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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Tantoratvoto
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Haithez
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Airavata
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Ganethra
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Detailed explanation-1: -Airavata (Sanskrit: “belonging to Iravati “) is a white elephant who carries the deity Indra. It is also called ‘abhra-Matanga’, meaning “elephant of the clouds"; ‘Naga-malla’, meaning “the fighting elephant"; and ‘Arkasodara’, meaning “brother of the sun". ‘Abhramu’ is the elephant wife of Airavata.
Detailed explanation-2: -The air force released from his trunk is equal to that of Lord Vayu (God of Wind). It is also said that Airavata can produce clouds because he reaches the watery underworld with his long and powerful trunk, where he absorbs all the water on Earth and then pulverizes it creating rain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Noun. • (diggaj) m. (Hinduism) one of the mythological elephants that support the weight of the Earth. (figuratively) a legendary person, someone who is larger than life.