[INDOLOGY] hyenas

[Péter Száler]

Dear All, many thanks for your useful replies.

Best wishes,
Péter

Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> ezt írta (időpont:
2022. júl. 6., Sze, 19:49):

> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Martin Straube
> > Research Fellow in Pali Lexicography
> > The Pali Text Society
> > www.palitext.com
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Research Fellow in Pali Lexicography
> > The Pali Text Society
> > www.palitext.com
> >
> >
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