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    Cow

    animal · 21 works · 65 mentions · 136 anchored passages

    cows · cattle · cow · kine · milch-cows · the cow · a cow · bulls · calf · cow-pen

    spoken of as

    8 expressions

    Cattle“plundered livestock”25 mentions

    Hellenica (Greek) · Manusmṛti (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)

    and in the end the Greeks were shot down like cattle shut up in a pen.
    chapter 3

    Cows“kine”14 mentions

    Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit) · Brahmabindūpaniṣad (Sanskrit) · Viṣṇu Smṛti (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)

    He drove the cows out;
    mandala 2

    Cows / Cattle3 mentions

    Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)

    you found the cows that were in the cave.
    mandala 1

    Cattle/cows“go”2 mentions

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)

    Prajāpati, delighting in me, has driven many true ones here into my cowpen.
    kanda 19

    the cow2 mentions

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)

    Yield milk as for your own calf.
    kanda 20

    Cattle and cows“sacred, inviolable”1 mention

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)

    they yield ghee and food for the herd of cattle led by the bull.
    kanda 16

    Cow / cattle1 mention

    Rigveda (Sanskrit)

    they drove away the offspring from the home;
    mandala 6

    Sacred cattle“cows”1 mention

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)

    full of fame among cattle and among men.
    kanda 18

    in the texts

    RigvedaAncient · Sanskrit

    Cattle, both as the treasure released from the mythic cave and as recurring ritual/simile imagery.

    He drove the cows out;
    mandala 2
    he with his warriors goes foremost among the cows.
    mandala 2
    He who drove out the cows, he divided them among the heavens;
    mandala 2

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    The milch-cow, central ritual gift of the birth-membrane hymn and used as a simile for herbs' vitality.

    Five gods drink of her:
    kanda 11
    The vital forces of the herbs rise up like cows issuing from the cowpen;
    kanda 11
    A cow that has calved before, together with the former calf — her other calf is the birth-membrane;
    kanda 11

    ManusmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    Cattle treated as a unit of wealth, gift, and merit throughout the passage.

    A field, gold, a cow, a horse, an umbrella and shoes, a seat, grain, vegetables, and clothes—he should bring these to please his *guru*.
    chapter 2
    In contracting a marriage, one should avoid these ten families, even if they are great and rich in cattle, goats, sheep, wealth, and grain.
    chapter 3
    Him, who is known for his Dharma, the heir to his father's Veda, wearing a garland and seated on a couch, one should first honor with a cow.
    chapter 3

    SāmavedaAncient · Sanskrit

    A cow used both as birth-simile and as a figure of truth-yielding abundance.

    O Indra, thy cow of truth milks out the cow and horse, swelling with abundance, for the sacrificer who presses the soma.
    prapathaka 12
    Like the sun stretching himself, like a great cow giving birth — let the shouts of the Vṛtra-slaying prize-winners, of the prize horses and the winning chariots go forth.
    prapathaka 12
    the cows low, the milch cows cry;
    prapathaka 5

    The Law of Torts19th Century · English

    Domesticated livestock whose straying onto another's land is treated as trespass by their owner.

    Trespass by a man’s cattle is dealt with exactly like trespass by himself;
    ii trespass
    Duty of keeping in cattle.
    trachiniae
    The word “cattle” includes horses and perhaps pigs.
    chapter 50

    Parāśara SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    Cow, treated as a source of both prohibited and purifying substances across different rules.

    They should give a cow along with a bull to a Brāhmaṇa as a sacrificial fee (*dakṣiṇā*).
    chapter 4
    A Brāhmaṇa who, out of ignorance, follows a deceased Kṣatriya, becomes impure for one day and is purified by consuming *pañcagavya* (the five products of the cow).
    chapter 3
    By drinking the milk of a brown cow, by having intercourse with a Brāhmaṇa woman, and by deliberating on the syllables of the Veda, a Śūdra becomes an outcaste (*caṇḍāla*).
    chapter 1

    Āṅgirasa SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The cow, treated both as a source of substitute ritual hair and as an object of gift-giving in expiation.

    Until then, hair from a cow's tail must be worn according to the rule.
    chapter 1
    If his top-knot is cut by an enemy, he should immediately wear hair from a cow's tail on his ear and, being pure, should perform a Prājāpatya penance.
    chapter 1
    For neglecting the death anniversary out of delusion, one should perform two *kṛcchra* penances, a recitation of the Gāyatrī ten thousand times, and the gift of a cow.
    chapter 1

    Viṣṇu SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The cow as a preeminent, sacred gift-animal in Dharmaśāstra donation practice

    The giver of ten cows, the worlds of cows.
    chapter 92
    The giver of a hundred cows, the worlds of Brahma.
    chapter 92
    By the gift of a cow, he attains the world of heaven.
    chapter 92

    Vālmīki RāmāyaṇaAncient · Sanskrit

    The cattle promised and given to Trijaṭa, and cows that fail to suckle their calves as an ill omen.

    cows did not suckle their calves.
    kanda 2
    "Not even one of a thousand cows has yet been distributed by me;
    kanda 2
    Then the great sage Trijaṭa, together with his wife, joyfully received the herd of cattle and in return offered to the great-souled one blessings that swelled with fame, strength, joy, and happiness.
    kanda 2

    The Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaAncient · English

    Named for the 'congress of a cow' (woman as quadruped) and 'congress of a herd of cows' (man with many women).

    When a man enjoys many women altogether, it is called the "congress of a herd of cows.
    chapter 2
    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.
    chapter 2
    They are not however on this account to be abandoned, because religious law, on the authority of which they are reckoned pure, lays down that the udder of a cow is clean at the time of milking, though the mouth of a cow, and also the mouth of her calf, are considered unclean by the Hindoos.
    chapter 5

    TarkasaṃgrahaAncient · Sanskrit

    Stock example animal used in the comparison example and to illustrate a verbal command.

    The instrument of comparative cognition is upamāna (comparison).
    cognition and the means of valid knowledge nyaya e
    A statement (vākya) is a collection of words, as in 'bring the cow.
    cognition and the means of valid knowledge nyaya e

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Animals cited by Diogenes as wiser than men in contentment with natural food and drink.

    And he laughed at those who, when they were thirsty, passed the springs by, but sought by all means where they might buy Chian or Lesbian wine, and he said they were far more witless than the cattle;
    oration 6

    Hymn 30 to EarthClassical · Greek

    Livestock appearing as a sign of the abundance granted by Earth.

    his fruitful land is laden with corn, his pastures are covered with cattle, and his house is filled with good things.
    hymn 30 to earth

    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    Animal used in the same proverbial figure, representing the true lost matter (the concurrent right of taxation) that the court neglected.

    But, the court, instead of considering the precedents in relation to the concurrent right of taxation, have insisted at large upon those which relate to the constitutionality of banking, and adhered to the precedent of searching for a goose, when the thing lost was a cow.
    section 11 the bank decision precedents

    ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

    Livestock at the center of two separate raiding episodes.

    Meanwhile Castor, together with Polydeuces, are caught stealing the cattle of Idas and Lynceus;
    chrestomathy
    After that he drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding cities, and he kills Troilus.
    chrestomathy

    BrahmabindūpaniṣadAncient · Sanskrit

    Cows of differing colors used as a simile for the outwardly varied doctrines that nonetheless yield knowledge of a single 'color'.

    Of cows of many colors the milk yet has [but] one color;
    the upanisad of the drop point of brahman

    VīramitrodayaAncient · Sanskrit

    Cow named as one of the items given in the daily giving rite performed even during an intercalary month.

    > In the year, the daily ancestral rite, and the daily giving, / > of a cow, land, sesame, and gold, should be performed even in an intercalary month.
    chapter 1

    VratisasanaAncient · Kawi

    Cattle whose hoof-dust is used as a ritual purifying substance in Vāyavya bathing.

    [VS_appendix-17s-cd] *Brāhmya is indeed bathing with mantra, and Vāyavya is the dust of cows.
    chapter 1
    Now, as for *Vāyavya*, it is bathing characterized by covering the body up to the head, caused by the dust from the hooves of cows.
    chapter 1

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Domesticated animals used to compare animal obedience with human resistance to rule.

    And in addition to this, we reflected that cowherds are the rulers of their cattle, that grooms are the rulers of their horses, and that all who are called herdsmen might properly be regarded as the rulers of the animals over which they are placed in charge.
    chapter 1

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Cattle are animals useful for human purposes and sacrificial rites and included among possessions needing divine blessing.

    so that men have victims for propitiating the gods with sacrifice and cattle for their own use.
    chapter 5
    Wealth, of course, and much more so than cattle, if it be true that they are more profitable than cattle.
    chapter 1
    Know of a surety that right-minded men offer prayer for fruits and crops and cattle and horses and sheep, aye and for all that they possess.
    chapter 5

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Livestock captured as war booty during the Elean campaign, and separately invoked as a simile for the slaughter of the trapped Greek guard in Bithynia.

    and in the end the Greeks were shot down like cattle shut up in a pen.
    chapter 3
    After his sacrifices he marched upon the city of Elis, laying the land waste with axe and fire as he went, and vast numbers of cattle and vast numbers of slaves were captured in the country;
    chapter 3