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Introduction : This article is not about Gait of Elephant. It is about how Gait-of-Elephant, as a technique, is used in Telugu poetry and Telugu Movie Songs.  Let’s quickly imagine the Gait of an Elephant. An elephant does not gallop, nor does it takes long strides, and forget jumping. Even in distress, an Elephant will just walk fast but it’s stride is of same length. It never bounces. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyNgRTlbto   In Indian literature and psyche, "Gait of an Elephant" has special place. It is common to describe the gait of the main character with the royal gait of an elephant. Thyagaraja (1767–1847), The greatest composer of carnatic classical music, opens a popular carnatic composition, in Raga Hindolam, on Lord Krishna, as "(One with) Gait of a great elephant” (“saamaja-vara-gamana”). Link: https://youtu.be/xcOoJDkn0Mw?t=857 . More recently, Indian painter MF Husain, painted Bollywood Heroine, Madhuri Dixit, as "Lady with Gait of Elephant&