Meaning ‘belonging to Iravati’ or ‘produced from water’, Airavata is a celestial white elephant, usually depicted with three or five heads, who carries the deity Indra on his back. In the Ramayana, his lineage is traced to Iravati, while according to another legend, he is believed to have emerged out of the Samudra Manthan.
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