Asoka: Roads and Animals

Artur Karp karp at UW.EDU.PL
Tue Aug 16 10:03:21 UTC 2011


Tangentially. Why are bulls so omnipresent in the store of Sanskrit metaphors?

Is it because of their sexual provess?

Or - because they are alpha-males par excellence? Then - reproductors,
yes, but first of all leaders, leaders of the herds.

Herds observed while just grazing on some pasture? Or, rather, herds
in movement, with an alpha-bull in the lead?


Artur





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