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There has been a lot of references regarding animal sacrifices in the Vedas but unfortunately, the Zoological knowledge of the Vedic period has not yet been fully elucidated. The *Chāndogya Upaniṣad* has classified animals on the basis of their ovum or seed (*bīja*) into three groups.