Asvasastram: (An Illustrated Book of Equinology)

This volume is based on an illustrated Sanskrit manuscript of the Asvasastra (Science of Horses) which is a brief compendium of some important facets of Equinology based on the works of ancients Indian equinologists like Salihotra, Nakula, Garga, Gana etc. The Asvasastra  extensively deals with various interesting and scientific aspects of horses like anatomy, features, auspicious and ominous characteristics of horses, their colour, neighing, smell, shade, gait, defects, breedas, age, evils that may befall, their prevention and remedial measures etc. This work by an anonymous author variously described in different manuscripts as Nakula or Gana is written in chaste and succinct style, pure and undefiled Sanskrit. It is supplemented by extraordinarily captivating and accurate coloured pictures of horses to illustrate their scientific descriptions contained in the work. This volume contains an exhaustive introduction, the original Sanskrit text with 235 illustrations and subtitles in English, Followed by translations in English and Hindi.