All wild deer have been dedicated to the celestials and the departed Manes in days of old, O king, by Agastya. Hence the hunting of dcer is not censured.
आरण्याः सर्वदैवत्याः सर्वशः प्रोक्षिता मृगाः॥ अगस्त्येन पुरा राजन् मृगया येन पूज्यते।