Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.148

c5.148

⁴ Cf. “Their industry was certainly a very important one. The large stretches of forest open to all, separating most of the settlements; the absence of any custom of breeding cattle for the meat-market; the large demand for ivory, fur, sinews, creepers and all the other produce and the congeniality of the occupation, all tended to encourage these hunters.” Rhys Davids, Buddhist India, p. 94. The hunters had already been cut off from the rest of the society, as in Greece : see Zimmern; “The mighty hunters of old days, once the pride of their small communities, were cut off from the society of the growing city, and became recognized outcasts”—The Greek Commonwealth, p. 236.