[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.2180 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2180 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2180 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2180) 7) Creation. Birds, animals. After creating all these creatures, Brahmā created birds, from his ‘vayas’ (strength), as free agents, according to their actions in the previous lives. Then Brahmā created sheep from his breast and goats from his face. From his stomach and flanks he created cows, and from his legs he created other creatures such as the horse, elephant, donkey, wild bull, deer, camel, mule, antelope etc. He created plants bearing fruits and bulbs from his hairs. Though Brahmā had created vegetables and animals at the beginning of the Kalpa (world-age), they came to be properly used in sacrifices only from Tretāyuga (one of the four ages) The animals such as the cow, sheep, goat, horse, mule and donkey are called domestic animals and flesh-eaters such as the leopard, animals with forked hoof such as the wild bull, elephant, monkey, birds, and other animals and reptiles, are included in the word ‘wild animals’. - [Previous: c9.2179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2179) - [Next: c9.2181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2181) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2180) · Pramāṇa