Bull

the bulls toss their horns into the empty air and scatter the sand with the stamping of their feet;

Look at the elephants' necks bowed to the yoke, the bulls' backs trodden with impunity by boys and women alike as they leap about, the serpents gliding with harmless slither among the cups and in the bosom, the placid mouths of bears and lions within the house, and the wild beasts fawning on those who handle them;

The bull mounted the vaśā-cow as she stood upon the threads of fate.

Homage to your greatness and to your eye, O Vaśā and Ṛṣabha — this I do with the mind.

And as it has been given by nature to bulls that they contend for their calves against lions with the utmost force and onset, so those who are strong in resources and able to do it — as we have heard of Hercules and of Liber — are incited by nature to the saving of the human race.

And he brought forth, when the Fates had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks.

He found a bull by the stable where he took and shut me up, and threw shackles around its knees and hooves, breathing out fury, dripping sweat from his body, gnashing his teeth in his lips.

They cook bulls for thee;

Bellowing, the sharp-horned bull has stood at the top, at the breadth of the earth.

We desire, O Aśvins, to go to the house of that beloved potent bull, the seed-sower.

The peoples have placed Agni, the upholder of cosmic order, the great bull, visible to all, at the fore for their blessing.

the all-formed lustre that arose on the earth, measuring out its own greatness in the mid-air — that is the shining seed of the rain-giving bull.

Swift, whetted, terrible as a bull, striking blow on blow, shaking all peoples — the roaring, unwinking, sole hero Indra conquered a hundred armies at once.

If a bull should beget a hundred calves in the cows of others, those calves belong to the owners of the cows;

They all ride upon a bull.

*The deity of suṣupti is said to be of Rudra-form, holding time.

, the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam.

On the female side, the elephant and bull, the mare and hare, form low unions, while the elephant and the hare make the lowest unions.

When a woman stands on her hands and feet like a quadruped, and her lover mounts her like a bull, it is called the "congress of a cow.

Then, when the palace gates were thrown open, there were led out at the head of the procession four abreast some exceptionally handsome bulls for Zeus and for the other gods as the magi directed;