A beautiful lively #nayaka period sculpture from Thirukurungudi nambirayar temple. #Thirukurungudi is a town which is located in #Tirunelveli district Tamil Nadu South India. In this they had shown the #elephant circus play and surrounded buy the #jugglers and #mahot. A well decorated fit tusker stands in two legs in a small #pedestal and holds a pot in his trunk. In the other hand we could see the similar practice happens till date but mostly femal Asian elephants are trained used for entertainment in circuses activities in this picture we could see the similar activity in most of the circus in the globe. This picture was taken from the #Natraj_Circus company which is from #Kolkata West Bengal.
