Note 306 — Chapter XXVII · MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

The author frequently uses the phrase māya dāshtan to indicate the advantage a hawk has when flying downwards from a height, as from the fist of a mounted man, etc. Chukor in the hills, and, I think, pheasants too, go down-hill when a hawk is after them. At any rate they are beaten for and flown at down-hill, the falconer taking his stand up-hill.