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She then sets off on her selling errand “placing the pot, with its speckled mouth, on her head supported by a circlet of flowers”. The Sangam literature of the period is replete with references to cream (*eḍu* or *perugu*), curds, buttermilk, butter and ghee (Srinivasa Iyengar, 1930, pp. 57-70). The finding of vast mounds of ash burnt from cattle dung, dated around 2200 BC, in many sites along the valley of the River Krishna in south India (Allchin, 1963) would argue for the existence of cattle keeping and dairy products from times long before the Aryan advent.