A big door bars the entrance to the cellar; the steps are slippery and soiled with bat dung.
Kept for milk and dung, cows personify Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and are treated to fruit and grain on her day of honor.
Every sigh, every groan of the coupling pair was like a chastisement. Chenayya got off his cart, looked around till he found a puddle of cow dung on the ground, and scooped up a handful.
Her head rested on his shoulder, the pleasant smell of her hair conquering the pigeon dung.
Approximately half of the world's population relies upon biomass fuels - such as wood, dung and agricultural wastes - for everyday tasks such as cooking, drying crops and purifying water.
Villagers have no choice but to use wood, coal or dung fires, raising the risk that young children will be killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning or a bad case of pneumonia ravaging weakened lungs.
Old pillows are rich in mite dung and human skin flakes.
Females plant a single egg in a dung ball where it matures from larva to fully formed beetle, feeding off the waste.
In the shade of a stick shelter, a young mother set her dented pot on a dung-fed fire and showed how she curdles goat's milk into white cheese.
Cow dung is traditionally used as a fuel and disinfectant in villages, while cow urine and dung are often consumed in rituals to "purify" those on the bottom rungs of the Hindu caste system.
Coveted as fertilizer, the dung must be reaped by hand.
More than half of the world's population rely on dung, wood, crop waste or coal to meet their most basic energy needs.
In contrast, soot produced by burning biofuels is often a product of dung - or wood-powered cookstoves used indoors and in densely populated areas.
The pedal is moving up and down, stiffly, automatically, a crazy, futile movement, like a tower of dung that takes twenty seven years to build but keeps perfect time.
Some species simply live in the dung, while others form perfectly spherical dung balls, which they roll with their hind legs, often over large distances, to a place where they can bury it.
But burning dung is inefficient and, in winter, temperatures plunge indoors.
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