Kamdhenu The Wish Cow

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Ahimsa Research Foundation

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KAMADHENU.
days to make one after the other. Thus what one eats today takes between 43 to 49 days to turn into semen.
In the first seven days what is eaten today turns into fluids and waste matter. Fluids remain within the body and the waste is expelled as excreta.
From the eighth day to the fourteenth day blood forms and so do the other elements subsequently. Now when the cow eats hay in the morning it turns into milk the same evening. While blood is formed out of the fluids of grass eaten today by the eighth to fourteenth day.
While milk forms on the first day, blood takes eight days to form.
Thus milk holds all the nutrients of a purely vegetarian diet.
Our cows in the olden days probably produced 1020 litres of milk (they were called Kundoghni). This milk used to be first offered to the calf till it was contented.
Then presume if about 8-10 litres were to remain in the cow's udders, what does one do with it? If it were to remain in the udders for long, it would turn toxic. So milking the cow is imperative. That milk which is drawn from the cow is not to be thrown into the river. After all it is a nutritional product and humans can use it.
Today's cows hardly give 2-3 litres at a time. The cowherd first draws out the maximum and then allows the calf to drink up the balance quarter litre or so. That leaves the calf always hungry. This certainly is cruelty. But taking this as the example and totally giving up milk is an act filled with the danger of eliminating the utility of the cow itself.
Just as the advent of the tractor has rendered the
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