[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Markandeyapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) › 48.28 # Markandeyapurana 48.28 Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 48.28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [48.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48.28) evaṃ paśvoṣadhīḥ sṛṣṭvā hyayajaccādhvare vibhuḥ / tasmādādau tu kalpasya tretāyugamukhe tadā // > When these eight classes of divine beings were created, the lord next created other things, birds and cattle.\[16\] He created goats\[17\] from his mouth; and he created sheep from his breast; and Brahmā fashioned kine\[18\] from his belly and from his loins; and from his feet swift\[19\] horses and asses, and hares and deer, camels and mules and other animals of various kinds; plants and fruit-trees were produced from the hair of his body. When he had thus created the cattle and plants, the lord performed a sacrifice. > — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa > From him at the beginning of the kalpa, at the commencement of the Tretā Age issued the cow, the goat, mankind, the sheep, the horse, the mule, and the ass (these animals men call domestic cattle), and others (which they call wild animals, hearken to me), namely the beast of prey, the cloven-hoofed beast, the elephant, monkeys, fifthly birds, sixthly aquatic beasts, and seventhly creeping animals. > — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa - [Previous: 48.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48.27) - [Next: 48.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48.29) - [Up: 48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48) ## Translations (2) - [The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-pargiter.48.p13) — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-mt.48.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.48.28) · Pramāṇa