Hunting animals

Expressions researched:
"animals I was hunting" |"animals in hunting" |"animals or hunting" |"animals, both in hunting" |"hunt and kill animals" |"hunt animals" |"hunt ferocious animals" |"hunt some animal" |"hunting all these poor animals" |"hunting and killing animal" |"hunting and killing animals" |"hunting and killing of animals" |"hunting animals" |"hunting one animal" |"hunting some ferocious animal"

SB Canto 4

Kings are sometimes employed to kill animals in hunting because they have to practice the killing art, otherwise it is very difficult for them to fight their enemies.

SB 4.22.13, Purport:

Kings are not only gṛhasthas, who are generally absorbed in sense gratification, but are sometimes employed to kill animals in hunting because they have to practice the killing art, otherwise it is very difficult for them to fight their enemies. Such things are not auspicious. Four kinds of sinful activities—associating with woman for illicit sex, eating meat, intoxication and gambling—are allowed for the kṣatriyas. For political reasons, sometimes they have to take to these sinful activities. Kṣatriyas do not refrain from gambling. One vivid example is the Pāṇḍavas. When the Pāṇḍavas were challenged by the opposite party, Duryodhana, to gamble and risk their kingdom, they could not refrain, and by that gambling they lost their kingdom, and their wife was insulted. Similarly, the kṣatriyas cannot refrain from fighting if challenged by the opposite party.