Parikit

Ugraravas tells of grown-up Parikit ii’s hunting and its consequences. The standout incident is described repeatedly (Malinar 2005:470-79).

in the first account (1.36:8-17), Parikit is said to be as keen a hunter as Pu. on one occasion he has wounded a deer with a flat-knotted arrow (bena nataparva, 1.36:11), and he chases it, like Rudra did after he had shot ‘the sacrifice-deer in the sky’ (yajamga divi, 1.36:12). Putrik business looms. Ugraravas says:

deer he’d hit didn’t go, still alive, into the woods! So the hit deer’s flight was a foreshadow of king Parikit’s demise.