Aliya

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Aliya is a term for an elephant in Sri Lanka, altough it means specifically a Tuskless elephant, it is used generally about elephants.

Mostly on this island, when Mahouts address their tame elephant, they dont use the name, nut simply command it Elephant: do this! like Aliya Billah, (Elephant: lift your leg)

Records about Aliya from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Aliya (Sinhalese): [see also: pussa, mukhna] (Deraniyagala 1955:48, Jayewardene 1994:20,12L; Spinage 1994.34; Cannon and Davis 1995:38; Katugaha 1,997:67) Tuskless male; a male without Tusks, but with Tushes, a tush elephant. Also a generic term for elephant.

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Aliya. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=61. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Records about Aliya from the Gajah Glossary, https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf

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