Mriga Pakshi Shastra

Author(s): Hamsadeva, M Sundaracharya
Publisher: V Krishnaswamy

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showing their extremo passion for cohabitation especially in winter season. They cohabit with sho-buffalloas of equal passion and age and give pregnancy to them. They generally give birth in their 10th month. The calves will be rather ugly having rough denso bair throughout their bodies and do suck their mothers' milk for some months. They are useful for ploughing, and cart-driving from their 4th or 5th year. They drink, ganji, dirty rice-water, and eat grass, straw, cotton-seeds and leaves. Their kinds are describod below:
Ist variety of BUFFALOES]
(MAHISHA)
They are jet black in colour and very stout. They 120 stout stomachs and horns. When they become wild and desire for cohabitution, they run very fast. They are fair to look at. They will remember things when slightly punished. They are harmless und very grtoful to their mastors. They are easily controllable and trainable. They can carry heavy burdens and withstand hunger, thirst eto,
[2nd variety of BUFFALOES]
(LULAYA)
This kind of buffaloes is partly blue io colour and tall with
long horns. They have rough and long hair throughout their borlieg. Their front kuees are a little bit longer than the hind ones. They bave stout tails, hanging testicles aud big heads. They could easily bus trained and controlled. They are very powerful and inclined to work hard. They are devoid of sorrows and misery owing to duliness. They produce good smell and have beautiful bodies. They are fond of
sweet words. They are more or less gluttons.
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