NOBLE COW: MUNCHING GRASS LOOKING CURIOUS AND JUST HANGING AROUND
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Passing Away
Of A Dear Family Member
An entire village in Gadag, Southern State of Karnataka, India bid a tearful adieu to a cow which died while delivering a calf at a veterinary hospital in January 2011.
Cow, the pet of a farmer, was given a dignified burial.
The cow reared by farmer Balappa Buradi was helping him in agricultural works. In no time, the pet of the family - fondly called as Sita - became a darling of the neighbourhood too.
While carrying, eight-year-old Sita developed health complications and was taken to a veterinary hospital nearby. It breathed its last the next afternoon while delivering the calf.
The inconsolable family and the villagers decided to give Sita a dignified burial as a mark of respect. They draped the cow in a Ilkal saree (a local speciality) and decorated it with flowers. Married women offered poojas and stood in queue for the rituals.
Then there was beating of drums, bursting of firecrackers and singing of bhajans. The body was put on a flower-decked bullock cart for a procession in the village, and it was finally laid to rest in the farmer Buradi’s farm. While mourning, the farmer said losing Sita was like losing a family member.
--(From a Times of India report)
Passing Away
Of A Dear Family Member
An entire village in Gadag, Southern State of Karnataka, India bid a tearful adieu to a cow which died while delivering a calf at a veterinary hospital in January 2011.
Cow, the pet of a farmer, was given a dignified burial.
The cow reared by farmer Balappa Buradi was helping him in agricultural works. In no time, the pet of the family - fondly called as Sita - became a darling of the neighbourhood too.
While carrying, eight-year-old Sita developed health complications and was taken to a veterinary hospital nearby. It breathed its last the next afternoon while delivering the calf.
The inconsolable family and the villagers decided to give Sita a dignified burial as a mark of respect. They draped the cow in a Ilkal saree (a local speciality) and decorated it with flowers. Married women offered poojas and stood in queue for the rituals.
Then there was beating of drums, bursting of firecrackers and singing of bhajans. The body was put on a flower-decked bullock cart for a procession in the village, and it was finally laid to rest in the farmer Buradi’s farm. While mourning, the farmer said losing Sita was like losing a family member.
--(From a Times of India report)