An episode in Hindu mythology central to the Vaishnava sect, it narrates the tale of how Vishnu came down to the earth and rescued the elephant Gajendra from the clutches of a crocodile, thus freeing him from the cycle of birth and death. The title of the story, which appears in the Bhagavata Purana, literally translates to “the liberation of Gajendra.
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