Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s3.t1.27

c7.s3.t1.27

¹ The employment of dogs, hounds and falcons creates many intricate and complex problems in relation to the religious validity of the game and, further, its suitability for eating by a Muslim. The Ulama on the whole reconciled themselves to the employment of falcons and hawks and even of dogs, ‘provided they were trained in hunting the game and did not spoil too much of the flesh by gnawing’. Vide T., 20.