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Scientific name
Capra kegagrus hircus Linn
Common name
Domestic Goat
Hindi
Bakri
Sanskrit
Khhagah
Distribution
Throughout India
Religious association
Lord Agni
The vehicle of Agni, the Hindu fire god, is a ram or mesha. Occasionally Kubera, the god of wealth, is also depicted as a ram.
The emblem of the seventeenth Jain Tirthankara Kunthunatha is the goat.
Source: “Sacred Animals Of India” by Nanditha Krishna, (Penguin Book India, 2010)
http://common.encyclopediaofjainism.com/images/9/99/Kunth.jpg
https://mythologica.fr/hindou/agni.htm
http://www.vellachi.com/images/1.jpg
