The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.114

v1.c26.114

Of the domestic animals the Greeks have most to say about the Indian dogs. There was that fierce breed, of which king Saubhūti had given Alexander an exhibition—the dogs which would not relax their bite upon a lion, although their legs were sawn off⁶. It was this breed, or a similar one, which the Greeks understood from the Indians to be a cross between dogs and tigers⁷!