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In Atharvaveda 8.10 a cosmic female power pictured as a cow. She rises and visits demons, ancestors, men, sages, gods, Gandharvas, the Other People and the serpents; each group calls her by a different name and milks from her what it lives on.
Sources: Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1895) · see Viraj's web