"The milch-cow (Dhenu) is contrasted with the bull, and there are special terms for cows, oxens and calves of different ages, for cows barren or otherwise and in various stages of growth and motherhood, as well as for a cow with a calf substituted for one of her own which had died (Apte in Majumdar 1951: 460)"
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Vaman Shivram Apte
Vaman Shivram Apte (1858 – 9 August 1892) was an Indian lexicographer and a professor of Sanskrit at Pune's Fergusson College.
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