Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.52

c14.52

as one hymn lovingly enumerates. Meat was also roasted on spits, and mutton and goat-flesh were eaten, in addition to beef. Leather was used for many purposes, such as slings, bow-strings, chariot-traces, reins, and whips, and some sort of a tanning process and the wetting of the hide preparatory to stretching it are implied by references in the *Rigveda*.