Vedic Mythology c5.s8.t1.8

c5.s8.t1.8

They further fashioned or made a cow (1, 161³; 4, 34⁹), which yields nectar (1, 20³) and is all-stimulating and omniform (4, 33⁸). This cow they formed out of hide (1, 110⁸) or extracted (*ariṇīta*) from a hide (1, 161⁷ &c.). They guarded her and formed her flesh (4, 33⁴). That they formed this cow for Bṛhaspati may be inferred from a verse (1, 161⁶) which states that Indra yoked the two bay steeds and the Aśvins the car, while Bṛhaspati drove up the omniform (cow). A minor feat, only twice referred to and perhaps connected with the foregoing one, consists in their having re-united the mother with her calf (1, 110⁸. 111¹).