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I KÂNDA, 6 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 4.
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we hate!' And if he should not hate any one, let him say, 'who hates us and whom we hate!'
13. With the second fore-offering, 'Two (dvau) for me!' and 'Two (dve) for him who hates us and whom we hate!'
14. With the third fore-offering, 'Three (trayah) for me!' and 'Three (tisrah) for him who hates us and whom we hate!'
15. With the fourth fore-offering, 'Four (katvarah) for me!' and 'Four (katasrah) for him who hates us and whom we hate!
16. With the fifth fore-offering, 'Five (pañka) for me!' and 'Nothing for him who hates us and whom we hate!' For, there being 'five' to 'five,' he (the enemy) is defeated, and whoever knows this, appropriates to himself everything that belongs to that (enemy of his), strips his enemies of everything.
Sixth Adhyâya. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Now the Seasons were desirous to have a share in the sacrifice among the gods, and said, 'Let us share in the sacrifice! Do not exclude us from the sacrifice! Let us have a share in the sacrifice!'
2. The gods, however, did not approve of this. The gods not approving, the Seasons went to the Asuras, the malignant, spiteful enemies of the gods.
3. Those (Asuras) then throve in such a manner that they (the gods) heard of it; for even while the foremost (of the Asuras) were still ploughing and sowing, those behind them were already engaged in reaping and threshing: indeed even without tilling the plants ripened forthwith for them.
4. This now caused anxiety to the gods : "That owing to that (desertion of the Seasons), enemy
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |