The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c17.44

c17.44

Also among hunters we find this moment of division of work which surely must have become important in the later development of the castes: the huntsman pursuing the deer is called migaluddaka (III. 49, 184) or simply, luddaka; a bird-hunter (sakuṇaluddaka, II. 161) we come across in the Kakkara Jâtaka, nay, even a quail-catcher (vaṭṭakaluddaka, I. 208) is represented. In the Kuruṅgamiga Jātaka (I. 173) a gāmavāsiyaṭṭakaluddaka is mentioned, i.e., a hunter living in the village who prepares an ambush in tall trees under which he has noticed traces of the deer and from there kills the animal.