Mansollas Satik Part 02

SR No.: 034205
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhulakmalla Someshwar, G K Shrigonderkar
Publisher: Oriental Institute
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 378
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 14 MB

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He advises not to practise killing of jackals or mice as it is degrading. A king should as well avoid hunting 1740, TEHET, HET OP HIET when they are in their resorting places or when they are in water,
Let us take these twenty-one kinds one by one. grafigar i. e. hunting near watering places. Big pits are dug out specially near watering places. In these pits the king and all the ladies of the haremdressed fully in green and wearing a feat (like the modern Pyjama) conceal themselves in such a manner that the deer do not get any scent of these people while the wind is blowing. All his men too should be dressed in green from top.to bottom. The beaters should then scatter gram before the Dipamrga (decoying deer) which are specially trained in order to attract wild deer. The trained deer return to the spot followed by the wild deer near the tank. When this wild deer comes near the tank or begins picking gram or fight with the decoying deer the king armed with his bow and arrow should kill the deer by surprise. Immediately his men should rush to the scene and remove the carcass of the deer in order that no remnant of its body and no trace of its blood may remain. When this is done other deer may be similarly attracted to this place of death. This method is better than the one which makes the hunter wander about in the hot sun in search of the game.
The second variety of hunting is called Carajā i.e. due to wandering of animals in search of food. When a forest-fire is raging, animals living there leave it in search of another which abounds in fruit and corn. They should be allowed to graze in the forest until they become bold enough to eat their food even in the presence of men moving near them. The king may kill them while a-hunting from an underground cellar (if it is day-time) or from pits or from under the shade of a tree (if it is night).
There is another kind of Cārajā Mļgayā in which wild bears are coaxed into confidence by the hunters who spread gram on their way in such a manner that the line ends near the tent prepared for the king. The same process holds good in the case of the deer also.
Ksetrajā - This is a kind of hunting in which the deer are killed when they come into a forest abounding in trees or in cultivated lands of peas, wheat, pulses etc. Here also the king should be dressed in green with weapons of green colour.
Mārgajā - The king first ascertains the path by which the deer habitually move. After knowing the route he takes his seat near it in a pit or the branch of a tree and kills them. :
Aho ! Shrutgyanam