Meritorious act), also released as A Truthful Mother, is a 2020 Indian Sanskrit-language animated film directed by Ravishankar Venkateswaran.

[5] Punyakoti is an adaptation of a picture book for children written by Ravishankar,[6] was produced through crowdsourcing and it is the first Sanskrit animated film.

[1][7][5] Punyakoti is based on a famous folksong in Karnataka written in the Kannada language about a cow that speaks the truth at all times.

The story is set in Karunadu, a village along the banks of Kaveri during the Vedic period.

The original source of the folksong is the eighteenth chapter of Srishtikhand of Padma Purana.