Chakravarti, M., 1906. Animals in the inscriptions of Piyadasi. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1 (17): 361-374
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Asian Rhino Species |
Ancient India
By the older Dharma-Sutrakars, the flesh of the rhino was permitted to be eaten, though one of the five-toed animals.
Its flesh, if offered in the Sraddha, was deemed to gives special pleasures to the Fathers.
Gradually, however, the feelings changed. In the time of Vasistha and Bandhayana, its permissibility as a food was a disputed point; Sankha though it quoted Yama's dictum laid down a penance for its killing, and Parasava ignoring the previous dicta similarly laid down a penance for its slaughter.
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