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Lakshmi, the Elephant of Hampi

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  Hampi, full of Dravidian Hindu temples scattered among huge boulders, was the capital of the medieval Vijayanagar Kingdom in the middle of India. Abandoned in the middle of the sixteenth-century, Hampi retains most of its grand monuments, temples, palaces, and canal irrigation system. Virupaksha Temple, the oldest and main Hindu temple in Hampi to which I hitched a ride, has an elephant-in-residence named after the Hingu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. For a mere rupee Lakshmi the elephant will bless you and every other pilgrim with her trunk. Lakshmi takes a bath every morning. When I first saw her in

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