Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t4.11

c9.t4.11

Dairy farming was in an advanced state and the supply of milk and its four products (*gorasa*), viz., curds, butter-milk, butter and ghee, was abundant and so people could get highly nutritious food. The milk of cow, buffalo, camel, goat and sheep is mentioned.⁸² *Khīraghara* was known as a place where products of milk were available in plenty.⁸³ The cattle were also utilised for the production of hide, bones, ivory nails and hair.⁸⁴ Slaughter houses (sūnā) were known. A slaughter house is mentioned where five hundred buffaloes were slaughtered every day.⁸⁵