[INDOLOGY] hyenas

[Asko Parpola]

I do not have at hand Stephanie Jamison’s book "The ravenous hyenas and the wounded sun: Myth and ritual in ancient India”, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991 (xxi, 336 pp.), and though I have read the book, I do not remember how closely the hyenas are described, but surely this is a book to be consulted.

Best wishes, Asko 

> On 6. Jul 2022, at 18.05, Martin Straube via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Péter,
> 
> both words seem to be attested by Indian lexicographers only. As to depictions: Alexandra van der Geer, "Animals in Stone. Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time", Leiden 2008, p. 427, mentions that the stripped hyena is totally absent from stone sculpture. So, I would be very interested too in any descriptions or depictions of this conspicuous scavenger.
> 
> With best wishes
> Martin
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> Martin Straube
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> The Pali Text Society
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> Zitat von Péter Száler via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:
> 
>> Dear List members,
>> 
>> Can anyone point me to sources that describe hyenas (tarakṣu) in detail or
>> contain the word yuyukkhura/kṣudravyāghra? Are there any studies about the
>> depictions of striped hyenas?
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Péter Száler
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