BOOK SUMMARY OF VINAYA TEXTS (SBE VOL. 20):THE KULLAVAGGA IV-XII
In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has
restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about
the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The
ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of
observation and an extraordinary sensitivity about aninal behaviour. The Vedas
Puranas, Epics and Samhitas are full of descriptions of birds, animals and
plants but the exact identification of names had got lost or confounded over the
centuries.