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Vishnupurana 1.5.51

Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition) 1.5.51

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Sanskrit

1.5.51

gaur ajaḥ puruṣo meṣā aśvāśvataragardabhāḥ
etān grāmyān paśūn āhur āraṇyāṃś ca nibodha me //

Brahmá having created, in the commencement of the Kalpa, various plants, employed them in sacrifices, in the beginning of the Tretá age. Animals were distinguished into two classes, domestic (village) and wild (forest): the first class contained the cow, the goat, the hog, the sheep, the horse, the ass, the mule: the latter, all beasts of prey, and many animals with cloven hoofs, the elephant, and the monkey. The fifth order were the birds; the sixth, aquatic animals; and the seventh, reptiles and insects.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

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