Prasadi Elephant

Prasadi was the name of elephant

Presented to Guru Gobind Singh

Along with many other gifts

By Raja Rattan Rai of Assam at the 

Time of his visit to Anandpur

It was a short statured creature with

A round white mark on his forehead

And a white streak on its back and tail

It looked extremely cute and beautiful, 

Trained to perform many unusual feats

It washed  and dried Guru's feet 

when  he came to the congregation, 

also put saffron mark on his forehead 

And waved a whisk over him 

when he sat on his throne 

Apart from that he brought back

The arrows to Guru when he

Playfully threw those  from bow

Prasadi also held the torch in front

Of Guru a

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Parsadi soon became famous

In hill territory and instantly 

Invited the envy of Bhim Chand

When he saw it on his visit

To the Guru at Anandpur

He wanted to have it by hook

Or by crook. He planned a scheme

Sent his uncle to Guru for borrowing it

For the purpose of a marriage of his son

But being a gift from sikhs it was refused

When he failed to acquire the animal

By stratagem, he attacked Anandpur 

But was defeated by the Guru.

It was a deep rooted opposition to Guru

Prasadi being just the visible cause.

According to Sukha Singh in Gurbilas 

Dasum Patshahi,Prasadi was reduced to a skeleton during the siege of Anandpur

In 1705 and Guru have him killed

To save him the torture