Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1886

c7.1886

5) More than one Kāmadhenu? There are references to several Kāmadhenus in the Purāṇas. There is one Kāmadhenu in Vasiṣṭha's Āśrama. At Varuṇa's yāga we see another Kāmadhenu. There is no ground for believing that there is only one Kāmadhenu and that it was borrowed by each Deva in turn for some particular occasion. It is possible that there were many Kāmadhenus in the family of Kāmadhenu and they were owned by different Devas. Moreover it is stated that several Kāmadhenus take their origin from sources other than the family of Kaśyapa. One of them is from the ocean of milk. In Mahābhārata, Ādi Parva, Chapter 18, we find that the Devas and Asuras churned the ocean of milk, along with many other precious things, Kāmadhenu also came up to the surface.