This is only incidental observation, but I would like to draw your attention to a topos that makes pearls flow from the split temples of rutting elephants.
Cf. Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: "Gajamauktika: Poetic convention and reality". In: Bulletin d'Études Indiennes 9 (1991), pp. 195-202.
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