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Mighty, with wondrous power and marvellously bright, selfstrong like mountains, you glide swiftly on your way. Like the wild elephants you eat the forests up when you assume your strength among the bright red flames.
Usage notes
In Vedic Sanskrit, the term appears in the neighbourhood of the term मृग(mṛgá, “beast”), implying that it originally functioned purely as an adjective.
“हस्ति॑न्” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 660, column 2.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “हस्तिन्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 376