> This is only incidental observation, but I would like to draw your > attention to a topos that makes pearls flow from the split temples > of rutting elephants. Cf. Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: "Gajamauktika: Poetic convention and reality". In: Bulletin d'Études Indiennes 9 (1991), pp. 195-202. Best regards, Roland Steiner