I would like to use this opportunity to share a historical account that connects Cows, Arabs, Hindus and Vasco de Gama. The story is from 15th century Kerala.

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When Vasco de Gama reached Cochin Kerala around 1942, the Arabs traders of Cochin grew jealous of rising closeness between Vasco de Gama and King of Cochin. They risked loosing their trade monopoly to Portuguese.

This is how it goes.

With the king firmly on the side of the Portuguese, the Muslim merchants hatched a plot. Three farmers approached the Julioa, which was in the harbor to load spices, and sold the sailors a cow. The Hindu king, naturally, got wind of the matter and made a forceful complaint to -

the admiral; like the Zamorin, on taking the throne he had sworn to protect cows first and Brahmins second. Gama promptly had it proclaimed that his men, on pain of being beaten, were forbidden to buy cows and were immediately to arrest and bring to him anyone who tried to sell -

anything remotely bovine. The three men came back with another cow and were dragged before the admiral, who sent both cow and captives to the king. They were instantly impaled without trial, reported Tomé Lopes, “in this way, that each one had a stake thrust up through the-

kidneys and chest that propped up the face,and they were set in the ground, as high as a lance, with the arms and legs splayed and tied to four poles, and they could not pull down the post,because there was a piece of wood across it that held them in place.

And so they carried out justice on them, because they sold the said cows.”

taken from the book - The Last Crusade : The Epic Voyages of Vasco de Gama by Cliff Nigel

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Check out my thread on 'Cow protection in 15th century Kerala"