ABC News reported Tuesday that hundreds of people have gone to the village of Saini to touch the girl's feet, dance at her bedside and offer the family money, believing she might be a reincarnation of the Hindu God who is half person and half elephant.

"People from corner to corner from all India and all abroad come here to take the knowledge about this child," said Harsharan Singh, the village math teacher. "It's a gift of God and some people say she is like a goddess. They call the baby a face of a goddess."

Medical experts in the United States who have performed surgeries on children with similar conditions say it's difficult to know the baby's prognosis without brain scans.

"A brain MRI would be illuminating to say the least. Without it we only can presume about what could be possible or what her quality of life would be with or without reconstructive surgery," said Jorge Lazareff, director of pediatric neurosurgery at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles.