A kind of Karmādāna (occupation involving immense violence and possession);
to earn livelhood through castration or emasculation of ox etc. or piercing the nose of the animals (for putting nose-string).
nāsāvedho'ṅkanaṃ muṣkacchedanaṃ pṛṣṭhagālanam.
karṇakambalavicchedo, nirlāñchanamudīritam...
(Prasā 266 Vṛ Pa 63)