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III ADHYAYA, II KHANDA, 16.
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Here is still-standing; here is (your) own stillstanding. Svâhâ !
I have let the calf join its mother. May the calf, sucking its mother's breast, support increase of wealth among us. Svâhâ !'
5. With the verse, ‘May Pashan go after our cows' (Rig-veda VI, 54, 5) he sacrifices from (a mess of sacrificial food) belonging to Pashan.
6. Having murmured the Rudra-(hymns),
7. (He takes) a one-coloured, two-coloured, or three-coloured (bull),
8. Or one that protects the herd, 9. Or that is protected by the herd, 10. Or it may also be red.
11. It should have all its limbs complete, and be the finest (bull) in the herd.
12. Having adorned that (bull),
13. And the four best young cows of the herd, having adorned those too,
14. (He says,) 'This young (bull) I give you as your husband; sporting with him, your lover, walk about. Do not desert us (?), being joined (with us) from your birth. In increase of wealth, in food may we rejoice. Svâhâ !!
15. When (the bull) is in the midst (of the cows), he recites over (them), 'Refreshing,' &c. (Rig-veda X, 169, i seq.) down to the end of the Anuvâka.
16. With the milk of all of them he shall cook milkrice and feed Brâhmanas with it.
6. Rig-veda I, 43. 114; II, 33 ; VII, 46.
14. The translation 'do not desert us,' rests on the conjecture må vasthâta; see the Various Readings, and the note on p. 145 of the German edition.
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