Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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272
VISHNU.
XCII, 2.
2. By doing so he obtains that place of abode (after death) which he desires himself.
3. By giving land he obtains the same (heavenly reward).
4. By giving land to the extent of a bull's hide only he is purified from every sin.
5. By giving a cow he attains heaven.
6. A giver of ten milch cows (obtains) the mansion of cows (after death).
7. A giver of a hundred milch cows enters the mansions of Brahman (after death).
8. He who gives (a milch cow) with gilt horns, with hoofs covered with silver, with a tail wound with a string of pearls, with a milk-pail of white copper, and with a cover of cloth, shall reside in heaven for as many years as the cow has hairs on her body;
9. Particularly, if it is a brown cow.
10. He who has given a tamed bull is (equal in virtue to) a giver of ten milch cows.
IV, 23; Y. I, 2o8. – 8, 9. Y. I, 204, 205 – 10. Y. I, 210. – 10-12. M. IV, 231. - 12, 13. Y. I, 210. — 13, 14. M. IV, 230. — 19, 20. M. IV, 232; Y. I, 211, 21-23. M. IV, 229, 232. — 21. Y. I, 210.– 27. M. IV, 232; Y. I, 2II.– 28-32. Y, I, 211. - 31. M. IV, 230.
4. Nand. defines "a bull's hide' as a measure of surface 300 Hastas (see X, 2, note) long by ten Hastas broad. See, however, V, 183.
8. According to a Smriti quoted by Nand., the gold upon the horns of the cow shall weigh ten Suvarnas, the silver on her hoofs ten Palas, the white copper of which the milk-pail is made fifty Palas, and she shall have copper on her back, which must also weigh fifty Palas.
9. "The meaning is, that a brown cow sends even his ancestors as far as the seventh degree to heaven, as Yâgñavalkya (I, 205) says.' (Nand.)
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