The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.60

v2.c17.60

“Once on a time she went to an adjoining wood that echoed with the buzz of numberless black bees flying about in quest of honey, and with the notes of cuckoos. In that wood, O Tuṇḍi, she perceived one thousand cows, each of which possessed five teats, and resembled the moon and Kunda flowers in colour. These came out of a lake, poured their milk upon a Liṅgam, and, them circumambulating and saluting it and looking around them, returned to the water. Her eyes expanded with wonder at the sight, and she desired to bring the cows home for gratifying Śiva. When on the next day, those milch cows come to worship that excellent Liṅgam, the daughter of the king of mountains, seeing them, through her faith in Śiva, obstructed them with a stick, and brought them to her abode.