Kautilya's Arthashastra 2.29.13

2.29.13

paṅkaviṣamavyādhijarātoyāhārāvasannaṃ vṛkṣataṭakāṣṭhaśilābhihatam īśānavyālasarpagrāhadāvāgnivipannaṃ vinaṣṭam //

(7) When an animal is entangled in a quagmire or precipice or dies of disease or of old age, or drowned in water: or when it is killed by the fall of a tree or of river bank, or is beaten to death with a staff or stone, or is struck by lightening (ísána), or is devoured by a tiger or bitten by a cobra, or is carried off by a crocodile, or is involved in the midst of a forest fire, it is termed as “irrecoverably lost.”