Goat
animal · 7 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
goat · goats · 100 goats · a goat · five-porridge sacrifice · kids · pañcaudana
spoken of as
2 expressionsGoats3 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · On the Estate of Hagnias (Greek) · Works and Days (Greek)
The goats have turned to the yoke of thy chariot, O Pūṣan—the companion of everyone who seeks, born long ago, never displaced.
The goats1 mention
On the Estate of Hagnias (Greek)
for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
in the texts
Rigveda
The goat that accompanies the sacrificial horse as Pūṣan's portion, and separately a speaking figure in the Ṛbhu riddle.
' A goat said to a dog, its awakener:
This goat, led forward before the swift horse, is the share of Pūṣan to be offered to all the gods.
When men lead the horse around thrice in order at the proper season on the god-directed path of the oblation, Pūṣan's first share comes here, as the goat announces the sacrifice to the gods.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Sacrificial goat born from clarified butter and cooked as the 'five-porridge sacrifice,' central to a rite said to exceed the Atirātra, Ukthya, and Agniṣṭoma and to legitimate remarriage.
Gather these porridges together in fourfold fashion, O Bṛhaspati.
nor does the Agniṣṭoma attain the goat, the five-porridge sacrifice.
Bṛhaspati beheld them — he it was who became the five-porridge sacrifice.
Stromata
Animal excluded from most sacrifice under the Law.
In this way too the Law does not sacrifice the goat, except in the single rite of the sending-away of evils, since pleasure is the metropolis of vice.
Works and Days
Young goats (kids), whose gelding is assigned to a particular day of the month.
Nor is the first sixth a fit day for a girl to be born, but a kindly for gelding kids and sheep and for fencing in a sheep cote.
On the Estate of Hagnias
One hundred goats listed among the livestock Theophon bequeathed to Stratocles's adopted daughter.
for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Named in the animal-imitative congress list, both singly and as a collection.
, sporting in water, or the congress of an elephant with many female elephants, which is said to take place only in the water, the congress of a collection of goats, the congress of a collection of deer, take place in imitation of these animals.
In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.
On Hunting
A domestic goat used as bait, tied atop a pillar of earth inside a pit trap to lure large predators such as lions and bears.
They tie up a goat and put it on the pillar in the evening, and pile wood round the hole without leaving an entrance, so that the animals cannot see what lies in front.