[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 208.2 # The Institutes of Akbar 208.2 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 208.2 - **Language:** English ### [208.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208.2) Many stories are related of the sagacity and faithfulness of trained deer. Only lately a deer created much sensation. It had run away from Iláhábád, and after bravely crossing rivers and plains, returned to the Panjáb, its home, and rejoined its former keeper. In former times, two persons at most enjoyed together the pleasures of deer hunting. They would even, from fear of the timidity of the deer, alter the style of their dress, and lie concealed among shrubs. Nor would they employ other than wild deer; they caught them somehow, and taught them to hunt. His Majesty has introduced a new way, according to which more than two hundred may at the same time go deer hunting. They drive slowly about forty cattle towards a place where deer are; the hunters are thus concealed, and when arrived enjoy the chase. There are now-a-days also deer-studs; the deer born in captivity are employed as hunting deer. The keepers will also bend forward, and allow the trained deer to jump on them from behind. Wild deer, on seeing this, will think that they are in the act of copulation, and come near to fight. This way of hunting is disapproved of by His Majesty, who uses female deer as a means of making wild deer fight. Once a deer caught a leopard, whose foot had got entangled in the net. Both were brought together from Gujrát, as mentioned above (?). - [Previous: 208.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208.1) - [Next: 208.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208.3) - [Up: 208](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.208.2) · Pramāṇa