animalBuffaloBeings · NatureBuffalo as an animal people have named and used. Herd weight, thunder run, grass wealth — one living kind, not a single symbol.Vedic traditionBuffalo appears in Vedic tradition.The Ṛgveda names the buffalo (mahiṣa) among cattle-wealth and wild bovine speech. A named Vedic buffalo in that corpus, not bull as Indra’s vṛṣan and not cow as go already filed.from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much olderappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.