A History of Assam c10.61
A History of Assam c10.61
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c10.61
It is difficult to explain the statements made by this traveller regarding the great tenderness shown by the people for animal life. It is far from being one of their peculiarities at the present day, and it may be presumed that the state of things described was due solely to the personal action of Nar Nārāyan himself, who was, as we have already seen, open to all sorts of religious influences, and may well have been induced by some Jain or Vaishnava ascetic to open hospitals for animals and to inculcate the principles here referred to.