Water buffalo

A water buffalo

The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), also called domestic water buffalo, Asian water buffalo and Asiatic water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Quotes

• As friend to aid a friend, Agni dressed quickly three hundred buffaloes, even as he willed it.
  And Indra, from man's gift, for Vṛtra's slaughter, drank ofr at once three lakes of pressed-out Soma.
  • Rigveda 5.29.7

• When, Mighty Lord of Heroes, thou didst cat a thousand buffaloes,
  Then grew and waxed exceeding great thine Indra-power.
  • Rigveda 8.12.8

• This Soma, pressed into the cleansing filter, hath run as ’twere a host let loose, the Courser;
  Like a strong bull who whets his horns kpen-pointed, like a brave warrior in the fray for cattle.
  • Rigveda 9.87.7

• As the priest seeks the station rich in cattle, like a true King who goes to great assemblies,
  Soma hath sought the beakers while they cleansed him, and like a wild bull, in the wood hath settled.
  • Rigveda 9.92.6

• Knowing his form, the sages yearned to meet him: they have come nigh to hear the wild Bull's bellow.
  Performing sacrifice they reached the river: for the Gandharva found the immortal waters.
  • Rigveda 10.123.4