{"id":966,"date":"2008-11-08T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/966\/bill\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T23:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T17:30:22","slug":"bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/966\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bill \u2013 The original was Indian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/11\/buffalo5.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In some ways Bihar reminded me of the Wild West! You do remember those stories don&#8217;t you &#8211; of cowboys and horses and gun fighters. One wild character was Buffalo Bill. But few know that the name was copied from India! Here Yama (Death) is shown as riding on a buffalo. He was the original Buffalo Bill &#8211; the wildest and most dangerous of them all. For the Buffalo Bill of the West might have missed a shot but Yama sure does not miss. But all the same he is a friend if you get to know him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/11\/buffalo1.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Buffalo is a major source of milk in the villages where you can see so many of them in each home (mostly all). The owners really look after their buffaloes &#8211; they rid them of irritating parasites, smoke them each day so that the mosquitoes don&#8217;t bother them too much &#8211; and one of the concerns now is a lack of fodder in places that were inundated by the waters &#8211; for the waters have destroyed the standing crops &#8211; the source of hay, as also the grass and plants which the animals graze on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/11\/buffalo4.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the children and elders take out their buffalo to graze from time to time they hitch a ride. We even saw some lying back on the buffalo and sleeping. There are not only Buffalo Bills but Buffalo Mary&#8217;s too! All over rural Bihar, in the rural areas such sites are common.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/11\/buffalo2.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as one Bill saw me taking a photograph he applied the brakes and the buffalo stopped. The boy smiled and I took a picture. If you noticed &#8211; the Buffalo brake is not a foot pedal but a hand brake and experts apply it backhanded &#8211; the boy is still holding it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/11\/buffalo3.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nijamrita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways Bihar reminded me of the Wild West! You do remember those stories don&#8217;t you &#8211; of cowboys and horses and gun fighters. One wild character was Buffalo Bill. But few know that the name was copied from India! Here Yama (Death) is shown as riding on a buffalo. 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