Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.127
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.127
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c5.127
Together with cattle, flocks of sheep and goats also were usual, as we saw above, and even kings are said to have possessed them.¹ We do not know as to how far these were utilised for wool-production. Here may also be mentioned the breeding of horses for quality,² which made considerable traffic and dealing in them possible.³ Kings, as we saw, were fond of hunting with dogs which led to the breeding of a good strain.⁴