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Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic Creation
Gajendra’s Prayers of Surrender - Summary
8.3
In this chapter, the prayers by Gajendra, the King of the elephants, are described.
It appears that the King of the elephants was formerly a human being known as Indradyumna and that he learned a prayer to the Supreme Lord.
Fortunately he remembered that prayer and began to chant it to himself.
First he offered his respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because of his awkward position in having been attacked by the crocodile, he expressed his inability to recite prayers nicely.
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