Khedda
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A khedda (or Kheddah) was a stockade trap for the capture of elephants that was used in India. The elephants were driven into the stockade by skilled mahouts mounted on domesticated elephants.[1][2]
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- ^ Diver, Katherine H.; Maud Diver (1942). Royal India. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 0-8369-2152-6. OCLC 141359.
- ^ Sanderson, G. P. (1878). Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts And Habits From Personal Observation With An Account Of The Modes Of Capturing And Taming Elephants. OCLC 5724410. http://www.archive.org/details/thirteenyearsamo00sandrich.
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