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3. There is a stanza in regard to this subject :
4. One who full of faith and with intense application of mind gives away a pregnant cow, enters heaven for as many Yugas (or ages of the world) as that cow and her calf together have hairs on their bodies.'
LXXXIX. 1. The month Kârttika is sacred to the god Agni.
2. Agni is the first of all gods.
3. Therefore is that man purified from every sin committed during the past year, who persists during the month Kârttika in bathing (daily) out of the village, in muttering the Gâyatri, and in taking a single meal each day, consisting of food fit for oblations.
4. He who bathes (at the prescribed time, early in the morning) constantly, during the whole month Kârttika, who keeps his organs of sense under control, who mutters (the Gâyatri), who eats food fit for oblations only, and who governs his passions, is purified from every sin.
XC. 1. If on the fifteenth of the bright half of the month Mârgasirsha the moon enters the lunar asterism Mrigasiras, he must give at the time when the moon rises (a vessel with) a golden centre, containing a Prastha of ground salt, to a Brahmana.
2. By (performing) this rite he obtains beauty and good fortune in a future birth.
XC. 3, 5. Âpast. II, 8, 18, 19; II, 8, 19, 1.—7. M. IV, 232. 1. One Prastha = sixteen Palas. (Nand.)
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