"So we see that the endemic cattle of South Asia (Bos indicus, Bubalus bubalis, Bos gaurus, Bos Gavaeus) were very well known to the authors of RV during all period of its composition, played an important role in (the economy of) the RVedic society and these bovines were divinized, worshipped, sacrificed and mythologized."
January 1, 1970
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