Just wanted to see what we have so far just on the asiatic lion, via asias continent only, it seems the media is missing alot of information that seems both america-english and even some indian mainstream news are oblivious to about the history of the asiatic lion:

Captive conflict accounts:

These records  of lion and tiger wild conflicts in the past of the 19th century and before, would be next to impossible to gather a wide range of records, since: 

1.) Actually finding them would be ridiculously hard, since one would have to check the fauna history books in the 17-18th century, the hunting records, natural history, and other archaeological history books as well via manually reading random books and english ones are very limited.

2.) And finally leads, leads are the best things into finding more accounts, there would be little leads to be given per location via maps, search engines and archives and india being so big where d you start?

All this is easily no problem and can be done in mere minutes now with internet technology. We can already go off the lead that both encounters the other in surat, tapi river...sooo..by just typeing that in the google maps:

We can see that there are university's and librarys right next to the very river a 150 years ago the lion killed the tiger, most likely these places will have natural history books with even more information, a english hunter in one isolated year of an entire centurycoming across them is beyond miraculous, but the people of india have been there for thousands of years, no dought those librarys would hold far more records than isolated cases by chance, we just have to see if any historical records of india in those specific places can be translated to english, no dought this goes the same for all co-existing places. So I would suggest these are the best methods in finding more accounts in the wild where the two co-existed. 

Hey, just a couple of years ago, no one had any data of lions conflicts with tigers (a question which has been asked for 2,000 years in all cultures who know both), now there seems to be nearly a 100 recorded cases both in captivity and in the wild: 

I think there are thousands  yet to be re-discovered, just have to look with the right methods, and in the right places.

You can validate the account in surat on the first post where the indian lion killed the tiger, it stated the tigers roar was not so deep and grand as the lions:

Bengal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQDv1IUho64&feature=youtu.be

Indian lion who too has a good sized mane:

Mr. Padya talks about a asiatic lioness killing a croc, and that lions have large coalitions too in india:

As for the asiatic lion, I've been talking to some of the people authority's on the asiatic lion and have shared some of the historical conflicts with them...they all were blown away with how they have been in search of the two in the same area for whole decades of their research...they all hold the same theory of the big cats dont share the same habitat bit, I mentioned that the major rivers of fresh water would conjoin their two meeting regardless of their chosen habitats, since the rivers stretch for hundreds of miles and india is famous for having the largest rivers.  And I think the ashoka pillars are a good stable preference in paving the way of locating more co-existing places...google books is an excellent search engine to finding them, more precisely because of the edit tool...you can type in a specific data line...in its advance search like 1700 -1800...since we already know that lions were gone by the 19th century it helps narrow down all the books that may contain information on both being in the same area, and using rivers, creeks, water ect in with lions and tigers in india seems to yeild alot more sources of the two showing up in the same jungles...which is slowly proving me thinking that they fought alot more than what the officials claim to have stated that no record of them has ever been recorded.

Again, thats because none of them are looking in the right time frame, and the right places...if india has too a record base like newspaper archives like all the conflict circus fights we found so far,and book archives like google books, then I'm sure a similar search in their language would be able to get alot more documents on the two co-existing. This is key for their on going debate on the translocations of the asiatic lion, if they wanna know there true historical value, then the best way would be to send out a request to all the universitys or librarys in india that are housed near the major rivers...emails request dont take all that long, compared to looking through hundreds of books manually...but regardless...I think the with the asiatic lion returning in numbers will spark the interest of many other science fields of india along with historians who will most likely re-discover and reproduce the asiatic lions true heritage in india.

I'm starting to think that the asiatic lion had no difference compared to the african lion in weight and size of mane, temperament and social life style...if this is truely sasan gir national park

Whether if it is or aint...to much records show that the lion of india was large, had a mane and most zoo asiatic lions are quite big. Of course it will vary and slight differences are there, but its only slight, so small its not of any significance, compared to how most 90% of the media makes it out that tigers dwarf asiatic lions...lol But I'm quite pass the weights and sizes, I dont have to keep saying how heavy mike tyson is to know how much he was pretty much almost undisputed the track record doesnt lie...it will all come down to the actual fights, I dont really care for the statistics any more, we know them already, and repeating them would change nothing in the out come of a fight. The historic value on them in conflicts will hold more weight than all the records of their statistics ever written by man. even if challanger A has every single statsitical advantage over challanger B, if there is 100 cases of challanger B beating challanger A, and not have even half of vice versa exist, then that means the statistics is just your misconception of what you though mattered in a fight.

Was there some kind of mystical, or a curative.. property ascribed to such a hairpiece - in historical usage?

Hercules did famously/proudly wear the skin of the dreaded Nemean lion he'd valiantly ( & bare-handedly) vanquished, after all..

I might buy it - for use as a heavy-metal band head-bangin' costume/prop though..

& Prime, I expect their might well be some interesting historical data recording contacts by people with the Asiatic/Barbary lions  - available in the archives of the educated peoples - in the areas where they had lived together for centuries prior to final extirpation..

Edit: fixed typo.

lol highlight in bold lettering's exactly which sentence of mine was the personal attack?

 This thread is called the asiatic lion thread, not the lions mane thread which already has another thread titled that...I took nothing personal, and I actually still stayed on topic while killing two birds with one stone...as valmik was specifically talking about the asiatic lion, a refute in what...you... brought up, that the lions mane is not known any where of a royal symbol, the only one took it personally is you, since again two birds with one stone, all the flags in the world dwarf the heraldic status of lions over the tiger, you think posting one source makes all of it dissapear?