India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.t1.21

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c8.s13.t1.21

The hunters moved with a pack of hounds (*Śva-gaṇena charati*, IV.4.11). Pāṇini's *śvāgaṇika* or *śvagaṇika* anticipates the *śvagaṇin* hunters mentioned in the *Arthaśāstra*, who were employed by the State to keep the pastures free of wild animals and thieves (*lubdhaka-śvagaṇibhiḥ*, II. 29 p. 130). In a Bharhut scene we actually find a hunter attacking his game with hounds (Barua's *Bharhut*, Vol. III, fig. 146).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit