Fresh horse-droppings mixed with short litter the greater part, cowdung one third, and the rest mould or loam.
Horse-droppings the chief part, cowdung a fourth, and the remainder loam.
When they had passed out through the pool Baijal opened the bundle to have something to eat but found that the bread had turned into cowdung fuel cakes; and the parched rice into meral leaves; so he threw them all away.
In the course of the afternoon the girl's mother chanced to look at the provisions which they had brought with them; and was surprised to see that in place of cakes was dried cowdung and instead of rice, leaves of the meral tree.
However, next morning, some girls, who were gathering cowdungfor fuel, found him and set him free.
He followed her to a shrine of Mahadeb; there she smeared the ground with cowdung and worshipped the god and said "O Siva!
As he was passing at the back of the house his maid-servant happened to throw a basket of cowdung on the manure heap and some of it accidentally splashed his clothes.
So he went home and burned the body of his wife and a few days later he performed the funeral ceremonies to the memory of his wife and brother; he smeared the floor of the house with cowdung and sacrificed goats and fowls.
He also brings water for Government servants when they come to the village, and cleans their cooking-vessels and prepares the hearth with fresh cowdung and water in order to cleanse it.
Thus members of the Gawad or cowdungsept will not burn cowdung cakes for fuel; and those of the Mircha sept do not use chillies.
The ashes are produced from burnt cowdung picked up off the ground, and not mixed with straw like that which is prepared for fuel.
The fires are kindled at noon with little heaps of cowdung cakes, and the penitent stays between them till they go out.
Women in this condition sometimes have a craving for eating earth; then they will eat either the scrapings or whitewash from the walls, or black clay soil, or the ashes of cowdung cakes to the extent of a small handful a day.
At the wedding she is dressed in new clothes, and the foreheads of the couple are marked with cowdung as a sign of purification.
When they ate either parched grain or sweetmeats from a confectioner in public they must purify the place on which they sat down with cowdung and water.
The woman's forehead is marked with cowdung by another widow, probably as a rite of purification, and the cloths of the couple are tied together.
The Batta conducts the culprit to a river and then causes him to bathe, cuts off a lock of his hair, breaks a cocoanut as a sacrifice, and gives him a little cowdung and milk to eat.
In this case the woman's head is shaved at the first meal by the Sharmia, that is her son-in-law, and the children put her to shame by throwing lumps of cowdung at her.
They have a small platform on which fresh cowdung is spread every day, and they bow to this before taking their food.
Hindus are purified from grave offences by drinking the five products of the sacred cow, milk, curds, butter, dung and urine; and the floors of Hindu houses are daily plastered with cowdung to the same end.
She sleeps on the ground and every morning spreads fresh cowdung over the place where she has slept.
The women accompany the corpse, and in the meantime the house of the dead person is cleaned with cowdung by the children left behind.
Next day the bride's mother singes the cheeks of the bridegroom with betel-leaves heated over a lamp, and throws cowdung and rice over the couple to protect them from evil.
He shoots one through each of seven cowdung cakes, the bride after each shot washing his forehead and giving him a green twig for a tooth-brush and some sweets.
Next day, covered with the dust and cowdung of the Kharkha, she crouched underneath the black bullock's belly and in this manner proceeded to the gate of her own yard.
Some of them observe the Tij or third day of every month as a fast for Ganpati, and when the moon of the fourth day rises they eat cakes of dough roasted on a cowdung fire and mixed with butter and sugar, and offer these to Ganpati.
A piece of iron is heated red hot between cowdung cakes, and she must take up this in her hand and walk five steps with it, also applying it to the tip of her tongue.
Such remedies as cowdung and cow's urine have been used on the continent of Europe by peasant physicians down to our times"; [347] and the belief in their efficacy must apparently have arisen from the sanctity attaching to the animal.
Thin and lean children are weighed in a balance against moist cowdung with the idea that they will swell out as the dung dries up.
Both men and women do this, and men apply burning cowdung to the tattoo-mark in order to burn it effectually into the arm.
It is a common custom also for pregnant women, driven by perverted appetite, to eat earth of a clayey texture, or the ordinary black cotton soil, or dried clay scraped off the walls of houses, or the ashes of burnt cowdung cakes.
Cowdung is not only a means of enrichment to the soil, but it is a gift from the sacred cow, and so, in a sense, represents or stands for the life of the cow.
At seedtime “a cake of cowdung formed into a cup” is placed on the threshold of the householder; it is filled with corn, and then water is poured over it as a libation to the deities.
A whirl is certainly observable on cowdung when it first drops from the cow; but the practice of making offering to it has also died out.
Yudhishthira from that time began to make always gifts of kine and to support himself on grains of barley and on cowdung as both his food and drink.
I am gratified with men who act in this way, as also with those who worship and make offerings to the whirl that is noticeable on cowdung (when it first drops from the cow)[548].
The householder should take care that his house is every day properly rubbed (with cowdung and water).
The horse-dung emits an unhealthy stench, while the cowdungis an efficacious disinfectant.
Great open sores form on the back, on which a plaster of moist clay, orcowdung and pounded leaves, is roughly put.
Leaves, refuse, cowdung fuel, and wood are piled up round every hut.
When a Brahman has been in a Kuricchan's house, the moment he leaves it, the place where he was seated is besmeared with cowdung to remove the pollution!
Another form of ordeal is dipping the hands in a pot containing boiling cowdung water, and picking out therefrom a quarter-anna piece.
Over the lingam, to keep it from harm, is plastered a black mixture of clay, cowdung ashes, and marking-nut juice.
Then a little bit of cowdungand hay should be mixed together and scattered over it.
The cowdung and hay will allow the worms to multiply.
As the hay and cowdung is eaten up by the earthworms, this should gradually be replaced.
Sometimes those who do not agree to abide by the decision of the Bichadi have to undergo a trial by ordeal, by taking out an areca nut from a pot of boiling cowdung water.
On their return home, the mourners sprinklecowdung water about the house and over their feet, and toddy is partaken of.
The dimensions of the pot, in height and breadth, should not exceed the span of the hand, and the height of the cowdung water in the pot should be that of the middle finger from the base to the tip.
The features and all the external parts are formed of a mixture of mud and cowdung painted.
Every morning the idol undergoes his ablutions; but as the cowdung and paint would not stand the washing, the priests adopt a very ingenious plan--they hold a mirror in front of the image, and wash his reflection.
No one must sit on cowdung cakes because they are the seat of Saturn, the Evil One, and their smell is called Sanichar ke bas.
A freshly-dried piece of cowdung is also picked up from the ground and half-burnt and put in water, and some of this water is given to her to drink, the process being repeated every day for a month.
The widower, accompanied by his relatives and a horn-blower, goes to the house of the widow, and here a space is plastered with cowdung and the couple sit on two wooden boards while their clothes are knotted together.
Logs of wood and cowdung cakes are then piled on the body and the pyre is fired by the son, who first holds a burning stick to the mouth of the corpse as if to inform it that he is about to apply the fire.
When a corpse is to be burnt a heap of cowdung cakes is made, on which it is laid, while others are spread over it, together with butter, sugar and linseed.
When the Baghani sept hear that any Majhwar has killed a tiger they purify their houses by washing them with cowdung and water.
They eat the earth which has been mixed with wheat on the threshing-floor, or the ashes of cowdung cakes which have been used for cooking.
At the head of the funeral procession walks the son of the deceased, or other chief mourner, and in his hand he takes smouldering cowdung cakes in an earthen pot, from which the pyre will be kindled.
A top dressing of old cowdung would now be useful.
Some clear liquid manure (cowdung water, for instance) may be given to plants that are well established with roots and showing their trusses of bloom; and sufficient space to be given for each plant to develope its natural beauty.
Cowdung Bait is found under cowdung, from May to Michaelmas; and is good bait for grayling, dace, roach, or chub.
Beneath it some cowdung cakes smouldered slowly, yet not so slowly but that every now and again a blood-red bubble showed on the contents of the pot.
She is readmitted to caste intercourse, but has to undergo the penalty of washing her body withcowdung and having a lock of her hair cut off.
The chauk is a sanctified place on the floor of the house or yard, plastered with cowdung and marked out with lines of wheat-flour or quartz-dust within which ceremonies are performed.
Thus members of the Gawad or cowdungclan will not burn cowdung cakes for fuel; and those of the Mircha clan do not use chillies.
It is worshipped three times a day, being washed in the morning with the ashes of cowdung cakes, while in the afternoon leaves of the bel tree and food are offered to it.
When the family gods are worshipped, the women sit round a grinding-stone and invite the ancestors of the family by name to attend the wedding, at the same time placing a little cowdung in one of the interstices of the stone.
The mark is made with Ganges clay, sandalwood, or cowdung cakes, these last being considered to represent the disintegrating force of the deity.
They also clean a space with cowdung and place a lighted lamp on it and say 'Jai Kabir Ki,' or 'Victory to Kabir.
There, instead of a tree, they burn large heaps of cowdung fuel.
No cooking place is pure without it, and the corpse is cremated with cakes of cowdung fuel.
But this hardly explains the respect paid to it, and the use of its dung by the Bengal Parhaiyas instead of cowdung to smear their floors looks as if it were based on totemism.
One man sits facing the north, and places two round balls of cowdung on the ground.
On the day he retires to rest women mark the house with lines of cowdungas a safeguard, fast during the day, and eat sweetmeats at night.
This, when the pile of cowdung cakes is consumed, is broken to pieces with blows of shoes and bludgeons.
It is sometimes metamorphosed into a beautiful youth; it equals the treasure of seven kings; it can be hidden or secured only by cowdung or horsedung being thrown over it; and if it is acquired the serpent dies.
After the Diwali in Kangra, a festival is held to bid good-bye to the snakes, at which an image of the Naga made of cowdung is worshipped.
The Parhaiyas have a tradition that their tribe used to hold sheep and deer sacred, and used the dung of these animals instead of cowdung to plaster their floors.
After the death or birth impurity the house is carefully plastered with a mixture of cowdung and clay.
In Mirzapur, when the seed of the silkworm is brought to the house, the Kol or Bhuiyar puts it in a place which has been carefully plastered with cowdung to bring good luck.
She is made to wear a red-bordered robe and two images of the goddess Shashthi made of cowdung are placed near the threshold of the room for her daily worship with rice and durva grass, for one month--the period of her confinement.
The Cowdung Fly Of all the flies that ever I see The Cowdung Fly is the fly for me In cloud or shine, in wet or dry You can't find the beat of the Cowdung Fly!
The salmon fly shines in purple and gold Brighter than Solomon shone of old But give me the finest that money can buy And I'll give it you back for the Cowdung Fly!
Then anglers all you can't go wrong If you've plenty of Cowdung Flies along You never will want for fish to fry If your book's well stocked with the Cowdung Fly!
A tough old cuss is the big black bass It's a mighty hard job to bring him to grass But it makes no odds how hard he may try He can't resist the Cowdung Fly!
There are Hackles black and Hackles white Good by day and good by night Hackles brown and Hackles red But the Cowdung Fly is away ahead!
No maiden so coy and no widow so sly But he'll jump like a shot at the Cowdung Fly!
There's the little black gnat when the sun shines bright And the big white moth for the cool twilight But of all the bugs in earth and sky I'll bet my boots on the Cowdung Fly!
Death or birth pollution is removed by a member of the Mavadan class called Maruttan, who sprinkles cowdung mixed with water on the feet, and milk on the head of the person to be purified.
The Brahman makes fire (homam), and places a cowdung Pillayar (Ganesa) in the pandal.
Some cobras have a gem in their throats which they keep out to entice insects; they kill themselves if this be taken from them which can be done by getting on to a tree and throwing cowdung over the gem.
A rat snake seldom bites, but if it does, the wound ends fatally only if cowdung is trampled on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowdung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
