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Udayan and Vasavadatta Next morning the minister called Working day and night the artisans made a wonderful artisans and explained his plan- mechanized elephant. The minister brought Chandapradyot
to the workshop. Suddenly a white elephant came and We want to stood before the king. Chandapradyot was taken aback. make a mechanized white coloured
What is this? elephant
A white elephant in
our state ?
The minister laughedSire, this is not a real elephant. It is made of wood and is driven mechanically. The driver sitting inside
controls all its movements including
walking, turning, jumping, moving its | head, and even trumpeting. Look here.
The moment the minister clapped, a door opened in the belly and guards came out.
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Chandapradyot was stunned.
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