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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 8]
Dhanvantari's hand and began to run away, and the demigods, being very morose, took shelter of Viṣṇu. After the demons snatched the jug from Dhanvantari, they began to fight among themselves. Lord Viṣṇu solaced the demigods, who therefore did not fight, but remained silent. While the fighting was going on among the demons, the Lord Himself appeared as the incarnation Mohini, the most beautiful woman in the universe.
TEXT I
श्रीशुक उवाच
पीते गरे वृषाङ्केण प्रीतास्तेऽमरदानवाः । ममन्धुस्तरसा सिन्धुं हविर्धानी ततोऽभवत् ॥ १ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca pīte gare vṛṣāṅkeṇa prītās te 'mara-dānavāḥ mamanthus tarasā sindhum havirdhānī tato 'bhavat
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said;  pīte —was drunk;  gare —when the poison;  vṛṣa-aṅkeṇa —by Lord Śiva, who sits on a bull;  prītāḥ —being pleased;  te —all of them;  amara —the demigods;  dānavāḥ —and the demons;  mamanthuḥ —again began to churn;  tarasā —with great force;  sindhum —the ocean of milk;  havirdhānī —the  surabhi  cow, who is the source of clarified butter;  tataḥ —from that churning;  abhavat —was generated.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Upon Lord Śiva's drinking the poison, both the demigods and the demons, being very pleased, began to churn the ocean with renewed vigor. As a result of this, there appeared a cow known as surabhi.
PURPORT
The  surabhi  cow is described as  havirdhānī , the source of butter. Butter, when clarified by melting, produces ghee, or clarified butter, which