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of seeds: by means of seed he thus puts seed into it.
2. And if disease were to befal it, let him in addition prepare a pap to Pashan, for Pashan rules over beasts (cattle); and, indeed, he thereby gratifies him who owns cattle and rules over cattle; and it (the horse) thereby indeed becomes free from disease.
3. And if sickness without (visible) injury were to befal it, let him in addition prepare for (Agni) Vaisvanara a cake on twelve potsherds, with the earth serving for potsherds 2; for Vaisvånara is this (earth): he thereby gratifies this (earth), and it (the horse) becomes free from disease.
4. And if an eye-disease were to befal it, let him in addition prepare a pap to Surya ;—the Sun, doubtless, is the eye of creatures, for when he rises everything here moves: by means of the eye (of the world) he thus bestows the eye upon it. And as to why it is a pap (karu), it is because by means of the eye this self (body or mind) moves (kar).
5. And if it were to die in water, let him in addition prepare a barley pap to Varuna, for Varuna seizes him who dies in water: he thereby thus gratifies that very deity who seizes it, and, thus gratified, he approves his slaughtering another (horse), and he slaughters it as one approved by that (deity). And as to why it is (prepared) of barley, it is because barley belongs to Varuna.
6. And if it were to get lost, let him in addition
i Viz, such as fever, comm.
* That is, spreading them on the earth, or on clods of earth, comm.
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