Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
fruitful, lives in anger at her owner : 'since he did regard me as sterile (without giving me to the Brahmans), he shall be bound in the fetters of death!'
38. He who thinks that the cow is sterile, and (yet) roasts her at home, even his children and grandchildren Brihaspati causes to be importuned (for her).
39. Fiercely does the (supposed) sterile cow burn when she herds with the cattle, though she be a (fruitful) cow. She verily, too, milks poison for the owner that does not present her.
40. It pleases the cattle when she is given to the Brahmans; moreover, the sterile cow is pleased, when she is made an offering to the gods (Brahmans).
41. From the sterile cows which the gods, returning from the sacrifice, created, Narada picked out as (most) terrible the vilipti.
42. In reference to her the gods reflected: 'Is she a sterile cow, or not?' And Narada in reference to her said: 'Of sterile cows she is the most sterile!'
43. 'How many sterile cows are there), O Nârada, which thou knowest to be born among men?' About these do I ask thee, that knowest : 'Of which may the non-Brâhmana not eat?'
44. Of the vilipti, of her that has born a sterile cow, and of the sterile cow (herself), the non-Brahmana, that hopes for prosperity, shall not eat!
45. Reverence be to thee, O Nárada, that knowest thoroughly which sterile cow is the most terrible, by withholding which (from the Brahmans) destruction is incurred.
46. The vilipti, O Brihaspati, her that has begotten a sterile cow, and the sterile cow (herself),
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