NiIa

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From the book by P.E.P. Deraniyagala; Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species, 1955

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The Nila points were described by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala in the book "Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species", 1955.

Records about NiIa from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf NiIa (Sanskrit ?): (Sikes 1971:137; Deraniyagala 1955:68-70,140-142; Cannon & Davis 1995:709,711,,132,172) Sensory points on an [Asian] elephant, which may be stimulated by the Mahout to discipline, control, or direct the animal.

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

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Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). NiIa . Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=140. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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

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P.E.P. Deraniyagala, Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species, 1955

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