“The Boundaries between gods, animals, and people are malleable and fluid,” suggests Ankur Barua, a senior lecturer in Hindu Research for the University of Cambridge. “There could be sacredness not simply in the human type, but from the animal and plant forms, all types of residing beings.” सप्तैतान् संस्मरेन्नित्यं मार्कण्डेयमथाष्टमम्। https://www.instagram.com/p/DK1FagosWnk/