The Little India Fountain (GPS: 3.13006, 101.68417) is a fountain in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. It is located at the junction of Jalan Tun Sambanthan and Jalan Rakyat, in the New Little India of Kuala Lumpur. The 35-foot-tall fountain marks a central point of New Little India, which runs from Jalan Travers in the north to Jalan Tun Sambanthan in the south. The fountain is in the form of Airavata (Sanskrit: ऐरावात; Thai: Erawan เอราวัณ), the mythological transport or vahana (Sanskrit: वाहन) for the Hindu deity Indra. The central column is a two-tier cascading fountain which empties into a pool with bathing elephants, their trunks uplifted.
360° View of the Little India Fountain on Google Maps Street View
Elephant Fountain
The Little India Fountain is part of the effort initiated by prime minister Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak to relocated Little India from congested Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman to Brickfields. The launch of New Little India was made with much pomp during the visit of the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, in 2009.
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