Tabaqui

"It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness— and run." - Kipling’s The Jungle Book

Tabaqui appears only a few times in The Jungle Book, mainly trailing behind and flattering Shere Khan in an attempt to suck up to him. The others see him as a coward, but as a scavenger he’s wise to follow an animal that hunts large game. I thought it fitting that he would use a variation of the tarjani mudra, just like his master Khan.

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