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Gaur

noun
(Spelt also gour)
1.
Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.  Synonym: Bibos gaurus.






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"Gaur" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ancient town, now a petty village, in Malda District, Bengal, the capital of Bengal after the decadence of Gaur. Its history is obscure, and the very site of the city has not been accurately determined. It is certain that it was in the immediate neighbourhood of Gaur, and south-west of that town beyond the Bhagirathi. Old Tandan has been utterly swept ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... not pretended that the words of these Hindu tales are preserved to the letter. The question about the metamorphosis of cats into tigers, for instance, proceeded from a Gem of Learning in a university much nearer home than Gaur. Similarly the learned and still living Mgr. Gaume (Traite du Saint-Esprit, p.. 81) joins Camerarius in the belief that serpents bite women rather than men. And he quotes (p.. 192) Cornelius a Lapide, who informs us that the leopard is the produce of a lioness with ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Gaur" :   genus Bibos, Bibos gaurus, Asian wild ox, Bibos



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