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is also winter visitor in India sand a flock takes to wing in V-formation, and the monkey force of Rancandra, assuming the form of Geese in air (Hasit 591) attack the demon force of Ravana (Ram. VI. 69.36-37). The returns of the Geese to the Indian lakes and tanks in winter has been very compassionately mentioned in Vishnu Puran, V.10.9: : "Likle an imperfect ITA who naturally suffers from worry and many an obstacle, the Geese (H) who has deserted the tanks and lakes earlier, have come back again to them (and run the risk of being killed by archers for food).” In the Raghuvamsa XIII.55 flocks of the orga are said to visit India from the Manasarovar lake, and the Himalayan passes through which these birds and the crane fly over to India are called here and are respectively.
By the time AV 20.135 came to be composed, the prejudice against the pigeon had disappear, for in verse 12 of the hymn, India is said to have helped a wounded pigeon with food and water; and we also note it as pet bird (1641) in Hifra cafta 4.17. We have seen above how as early the age of the Yajus Samhitas, Parrots and Mynes were trained to talk, and we may not be surprised if practice of keeping numbers of pretty birds had become common with kings and the rich, for we find in Act IV of egohfcon that the courtsan a t maintained a large verity of birds in her palace including a parrot which could repeat even verses from the Veda. Pet birds were also common an all hermitages.
Love of the calls of certain birds explain the comparison of the tones of music with the pleasant voices of birds like the Peacock , Hawk-cuckoo, Sarava Crane, and the Kokil in Hari I.3.46. On the other hand, the silly pride of a physician went so far as to compare the pulse beats of certain patients with the gait or step of a geese, peacock, dove. Pigeon, cock, quial, partridge etc. in the book is tohtgt where the author proudly declares that he has indicated the best method of judging ailments for the ignorant physicians:
Some popular maxims have also been coined after the ways of birds, e.g. archaisita 14, Erichara PR, 3TUE hoonet zy ohlaferiche etc. The last of these is based upon a wrong belief that the crow has only one eye-ball because the bird, when looking down from a high perch turns its head both right and left. The Eary R4 is clearly reflected in the Pro VI. 28, where the (Goose) is credited with the habit of sucking up only pure milk from a mixture of milk and water. This, however, seems to be poetic extension of the Sun as a Swan or Goose ( TY, RV 4.40.5) who sucks of pure water (it, R. V. 1.164.7) with his rays from even muddy pools.
In the Bh. P.X.15.11-13 fondness of Sri Krishna for sweet notes and songs of birds and the dance of the Peacock, is said to be so great that he learn to limited them quite correctly. In the Gita (10.30) he identifies himself with 102, the best of the birds-a-try was the one who robbed the सोम or अमृत well-guarded by the मरुतस in the सुपर्णाख्यान.
The slow and graceful gait of pretty young women has often been poetically compared
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