Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c22.s3.1

c22.s3.1

Animals have had an important place in the medicine, dietetics, economic life, fine arts and religion of the Hindus. The people have thus had experience of the life-habits, habitats, external characteristics, etc., of animals, both domestic and wild. This accounts for their intimate familiarity with the topics generally treated of in descriptive zoology.