Dear Heiner, As much can be implied in the Arthaśāstra at 2.2.3, which provides rules for establishing the king’s mṛgavana. It is to be provisioned, among other things, with bhagnanakhadaṃṣṭravyāla: various kinds of vicious animals with their claws and fangs broken or removed. Here is the passage from the Kyōto e-text:
tāvanmātram ekadvāraṃ khātaguptaṃ svāduphalagulmaguccham akaṇṭakidrumam uttānatoyāśayaṃ dāntamṛgacatuṣpadaṃ bhagnanakhadaṃṣṭravyālaṃ mārgayukahastihastinīkalabhaṃ mṛgavanaṃ vihārārthaṃ rājñaḥ kārayet | sarvātithimṛgaṃ pratyante cānyanmṛgavanaṃ bhūmivaśena vā niveśayet | Best, Mark On Aug 10, 2021, at 2:36 AM, Rolf Heinrich Koch via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear listmembers, I am searching for quotations (preferably in Sanskrit/Pali sources) which clearly describe that for a royal hunting trip the animal to be hunted has been caught beforehand and later released for this royal hunt. This would be helpful for the interpretation of a picture strip which visualizes the Ālavaka-damana-story according to thr Buddhist commentary literature. Has any of you stumbled upon such a passage by chance? Many thanks Heiner -- Dr. Rolf Heinrich Koch https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!FiCNfUEDDT4dSWL7vC9W-GeChFe39X97us66REU3uoUu2IRHOg2J-Kj-piHk-j0MDYS0h9OKJw$ _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!FiCNfUEDDT4dSWL7vC9W-GeChFe39X97us66REU3uoUu2IRHOg2J-Kj-piHk-j0MDYSkRTmqGg$
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