Mysuru: After a 46-day strenuous routine of rehearsals and the final Jamboo Savari, Dasara elephants, their mahouts and kavadis moved back to their respective elephant camps this morning with a promise that they would return next year. Their journey back into the woods began at around 12 noon and the team was escorted by Forest Department officials.
The first batch of elephants arrived at the Mysore Palace on Sept.6 while the second batch arrived on Sept.15. Today, nine elephants — howdah-elephant Arjuna, Balarama, Dhananjaya, Drona, Cauvery, Chaitra, Prashantha, Abhimanyu and Varalakshmi — left to their respective elephant camps. It was Arjuna who boarded the truck first today and all the trucks were escorted by a Forest Department vehicle.
