Pa.ncadevataa and handbooks on Falconry

[Klaus Karttunen]

Stefan Baums wrote:
> 
> Regarding falconry, there is
> 
>    HaraprasÄ*da ShÄ*stri, 1910.  SÌ„yainika SÌ„Ä*stra: or A Book on
>    Hawking: by RÄ*jÄ* Rudradeva of Kumaon.  Calcutta: Asiatic
>    Society.
> 
N.B.:
CHAND, Mohan 1982. °yainika•a*stram. The Art of Hunting in Ancient India
of Ra*ja Rudradeva of Kumaon. Transl. into English by MM. Haraprasad
Shastri. Ed. with critical introduction by M. C. Delhi.
Further:
KARTTUNEN, Klaus 1989. India in Early Greek Literature. Studia
Orientalia 65. Helsinki (ch. VII.2. Falconry, 160–163).
WILHELM, Friedrich 1987. "Die Falkenjagd als Sanskritwissenschaft", StII
13/14, 347–361.

Regards,
Klaus


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