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If you were to launch an elephant into geostationary orbit, it could stay there for quite a long time.

Most likely, it would stay there indefinitely, as it has already been proven that elephant skin is a key component of the outer shell of reusable spacecraft. Considering that an elephant in geostationary orbit requires virtually no acceleration, it could remain there forever (cosmonauts' testimonies about their presence in space and the elephant launches themselves are separated by thousands of years). All that remains is to figure out how Bhima managed to give the elephant an acceleration 40 times greater than the first cosmic velocity, namely 316 km/s, so that the elephant could overcome 35,786 km vertically (the shortest path). This is the distance from the equator where the geostationary orbit is located. What are your thoughts on this?:)