Varanasi Nandi the bull. It was then customary to employ mercenaries who had lost caste, so called broken men, to guard villages and to do unclean jobs. These out-castes had no land. They lived outside the village limits and were paid in kind, having exclusive rights to any animal that had suffered a natural death. They produce little more than one liter of milk a day.
Buffalo are are appreciated for the high fat content of their milk.
Varanasi Benaras city draws millions of Hindu pilgrims who flock to the more than 100 ghats to bathe in the holy waters but also a lot of tourists. Here is a boatfull of them on the Ganges looking south towards Jalasen Ghat. Varanasi Jalasen Ghat is a burning ghat with no customers when I went by. Varanasi Business was also slow at the Manikarnika Ghat which is normally the city's principal burning place. The stairway on Lalita Ghat leads to a Nepalese temple above.