Elephanta, an island 6 m. in circuit in Bombay harbour, so called from its colossal figure of an elephant which stood near the landing-place; it contains three temples cut out of solid rock, and covered with sculptures, which, along with the figure at the landing, are rapidly decaying.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Elephant, Order of the White * Elephantiasis