A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.182

v1.c23.182

The animals can also be divided into jāṅgala and ānūpa; the jāṅgala group is subdivided into eight subgroups, called respectively jaṅghāla (swift runners), viṣkira (scatterers), pratuda (peckers), guhāśaya (hole-dwellers), prasaha (snatchers), parṇamṛga (tree-dwellers), bileśaya (living in burrows in the earth), and grāmya (domestic);507 the most important among them are the jaṅghāla and viṣkira (46.53).