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belief that eight elephants hold the earth in eight directions which are namely
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literature and culture reached its zenith. In his imperial court, these eight poets were regarded as the eight pillars of his literary assembly. The age of
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also as members of the later emperors. From the stone inscriptions of that time, it has been inferred that the village of
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books and epics without changing the stories from the original. Ashtadiggajas usually took small, sometimes obscure, stories from
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