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Ūsarā -- The deer are habituated to take saltish earth, when they bigin to lick the ground they should be beaten with clubs on the backbone and thus killed.
Dipamrgajā – Young, robust and elegant male deer are trained. Bridles with bits made of iron and tin are then applied to them like horses. Female deer are similarly trained. These are called Dīpamrgas which in the absence of a better word may be translated as decoying deer or deer to serve as a bait. They are so trained that at the slightest sign they come back to their master in spite of temptations of food or a male or female of the species. The king accompanied by such Dipamrgas and two hunters should go to the forest.
When a herd of wild deer is traced the information is carried to the king, who should, then, carefully hide himself. The hunters carefully enter the forest, hide themselves behind trees and sometimes behind bullocks. One of them stealthily comes out of the forest, to inform the king leaving no ground for the deer to suspect the existence of men in the forest. He scatters leaves before himself so that the animals may not suspect the presence of men in the forest. Then the king with his bow and five arrows in one hand and a Dipamrga in the other should go forward followed by two hunters with Dipamrgas in their hands. The informant posted in the middle then should proceed cautiously and inform the person nearest to the herd. On the first man signalling these people to come nearer they should go with their bodies covered with Yavas (grass). If the herd looks at them they should let the Dipamrgas go and walk on all fours. The credulous ones among the herd may come towards the Dipamțgas either for company or for a fight. When the deer is thus drawn nearer the king should, from the place of hiding, either behind a Dipamrga or on a tree discharge arrows at the deer and kill it.
By tying the Dīpamțgas to a tree also he can have a lot of Shikār. After describing the two methods of attracting the forest deer by means of Baddha (chained or restrained) Dipamrgas he now gives the method of attracting them with the help of Mukta (unrestrained) Dīpamrgas. These unrestrained Dīpamrgas freely mix with the forest deer. The hunter spreads gram in the forest and makes a sign by snapping the thumb and the middle-finger (
S T). On hearing the signal the Dipamrgas return followed by a number of forest deer. These are then killed.
There is another way of attracting the deer by Balivardatirodhāna (lit. hiding behind a bullock) method. Hunters conceal themselves
Aho ! Shrutgyanam
| SR No. | 034205 |
| Book Title | Mansollas Satik Part 02 |
| 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 |