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Overview

While searching the riverbank for his abducted wife, Sribatsa spends a night in a tree and finds a Kapila-cow at its foot the next morning. The narrator says that this cow never calves but can be milked at any hour. She returns morning and evening, supplying him with milk while he watches for the boat that carries his wife. Her dung is pure gold: he writes his name in it while soft and arranges the hardened pieces as bricks. These inscribed bricks later identify the property stolen by the boatmen and help reunite the couple. The episode occurs during Sani’s period of hostile influence and Lakshmi’s promised protection, but the text does not expressly call the cow an incarnation of either deity or identify her with every sacred cow bearing a similar name.

Uncalving cow that supplies milk and gold dungInscribed gold bricks identify stolen property
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Origins & earliest records

Bengali oral storytelling translated by Lal Behari Day

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tale, attached notes,1883 preface and1912 edition credits directly read.

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    Folk-Tales of Bengal

    Lal Behari Day, collector and translator · 1912

    VI, The Evil Eye of Sani, pp. 108–109; complete tale pp. 104–113 and note

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Primary records and illustrations

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Lal Behari Day, Folk-Tales of Bengal (Macmillan,1912; first edition1883)

VI. VI, The Evil Eye of Sani, pp. 108–109; complete tale pp. 104–113 and note

Complete VI and its name-gloss footnote directly read. Milk, gold dung and recovery of inscribed bricks followed through the ending. Original paraphrase; no image inspected; no deity-incarnation identification inferred.

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  1. Historical translated oral narrative and collector notesDay, Folk-Tales of Bengal (1912), VI, The Evil Eye of Sani, pp. 108–109; complete tale pp. 104–113 and noteResearch access: 2026-10-05

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