“The Boundaries amongst gods, animals, and humans are malleable and fluid,” says Ankur Barua, a senior lecturer in Hindu Research on the University of Cambridge. “There might be sacredness not simply during the human variety, but during the animal and plant forms, all forms of living beings.” सप्तैतान् संस्मरेन्नित्यं मार्कण्डेयमथाष्टमम्। https://www.instagram.com/p/DK1FagosWnk/