Dear John,

I worked quite hard on animals when I was writing The Roots of Ayurveda (3rd ed, Penguin 2003).  There's a Sansksrit-English and English-Sanskrit index, and I give the sources I used in a compressed bibliography at the end of my Introduction.  The publications of the Bombay Natural History Society were invaluable.

--

Professor Dominik Wujastyk

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity

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Department of History and Classics

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University of Alberta, Canada

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South Asia at the U of A:

 

sas.ualberta.ca

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 11:28, John Huntington via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear list members, 

I am working on a very modest terminology and illustrated list of animals that occur in Buddhism. Unfortunately one, the Chinkara a (small gazelle) which repeatedly appears to either side of the Dharmachakra in most sculptures oof the first turning, does not appear to have a verifiable Sanskrit name. In essence, it is the "deer" of the 'deer park' translation of "mṛgadava." 

The creature depicted does not (or very rarely) has branched antlers (a deer characteristic) but gently curving horns which it does not shed (an antelope gazelle characteristic). 

My sincere appreciation for any help or references.

Best to all

John

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