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It is one of the significant animals finding references in Hindu scriptures, as well as Buddhist and Jain texts.

[2] Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya reports use of war elephants during warfare.

Several deities and mythological figures have elephants as their conveyance (vahana), including Balarama, Skanda, and Aiyanar.

The Buddhist tradition states that Buddha came into the womb of his mother in the form of an elephant having six tusks.

According to Jaina tradition, each of the mother of the twenty-four tirthankaras dreamt of fourteen auspicious objects, which included an elephant.