Hatsadiling

The creature is considered to be the size of a house, with the head and body of a lion, trunk and tusks of an elephant, the comb of a cock, and the wings of a bird.

[1] According to an oral myth in northeastern Thailand, the bird once inhabited the legendary forest of Himavanta.

[2] The bird is often featured as a motif on funerary hearses of prominent Buddhist monks in Northern Thailand during phongyibyan cremation ceremonies.

[2] The hatsadiling (hathi linga) has also been used by the Marma people as a primary motif for funerary hearses.

[1] It is featured in Cāmadevivaṃsa, a Pali chronicle that recounts the founding of the Hariphunchai kingdom by Queen Camadevi.