Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s4.26

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c8.s4.26

People relate that, in the plains of Kunkan, called Dānak, there lives an animal called sharava (śarabha)...It has the shape of a buffalo, but is larger than a gaṇḍa (rhinoceros)...The gaṇḍa exists in large numbers in India, more particularly bout the Ganges...The Brahmins have the privelege of eating the flesh of the gaṇḍa......

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