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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2021 08:26 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:38 PM:

Pawns may promote to lost pieces, with restrictions. One pawn may promote to either (lost) member of the following 4 pairs of pieces: dababbas; knights; elephants; minister-high priestess. If promoting to a lost elephant, the pawn must promote to the opposite color of a surviving elephant.

I took this to mean that only one pawn may promote to a lost piece in each pair.  In other words, once a pawn has promoted to knight, you cannot promote another pawn to a knight even if you lose another one.  Upon further reading, however, I see it is not entirely clear.  But the word "either" must have been chosen for some reason.