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A Bull, a Log, and the Woman Holding the Reins
One hymn in the Rigveda's tenth book reports a race. The team is a bull and a block of wood, the driver is a woman named Mudgalānī, and the bull urinates halfway down the track. Three thousand years of commentators have argued about what on earth is going on.