INDIAN COW
Cow is most sacred animal in Hinduism because of many reasons like cow urine has medicinal properties, cow dung is used in villages in morning as spread in front of the door as it has disinfectant property. Indian cow milk is compared to honeydew, an excellent drink for health and contains vitamins and all vital nutrients.
Cow is also mentioned in Indian mythology in many places like kamdhenu came out from samudra manthan . Or to build the weapon vajra used by lord Indra to kill Vritasur was made from the bone is sage Dadhichi .
Info of cow
India has 30 per cent of the world's cattle. There are 26 distinctive breeds of cow in India. The hump, long ears and bushy tail distinguish the Indian cow.
Here cows are everywhere! Because the cow is respected as a sacred animal, it's allowed to roam unharmed, and they are pretty used to the traffic and the rhythm of the city.
So, you can see them roaming the streets in towns and cities, grazing unmindfully on the roadside grass verges and munching away vegetables thrown out by street sellers. Stray and homeless cows are also supported by temples, especially in southern India.
History of the Holy Cow
The cow was venerated as the mother goddess in the early Mediterranean civilizations. The cow became important in India, first in the Vedic period (1500 - 900 BCE), but only as a symbol of wealth. For the Vedic man cows were 'the "real life" substratum of the goods of life', writes JC Heesterman in The Encyclopedia Of Religion, vol. 5.
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