Cow

With kindling fires, with milch cows of swelling udder, with roads without dust, with shining glances — like swans to their resting-places come, O Maruts of one accord, for the exhilaration of the honey-sweet.

For thy glory the mountain opened wide when the cave of the cows was unsealed, O Aṅgiras.

Like one who fattens the udder of a milch cow — create for the singer a thought that is shaped by the prize.

The vital forces of the herbs rise up like cows issuing from the cowpen;

He who gives a cow with its calf along with the birth-membrane — him verily the gods cause to ascend to the heavenly world.

A cow that has calved before, together with the former calf — her other calf is the birth-membrane;

In contracting a marriage, one should avoid these ten families, even if they are great and rich in cattle, goats, sheep, wealth, and grain.

The merit which a twice-born householder obtains by giving a cow to his *guru* according to the rule, that same merit he obtains by giving alms.

A field, gold, a cow, a horse, an umbrella and shoes, a seat, grain, vegetables, and clothes—he should bring these to please his *guru*.

O Indra, thy cow of truth milks out the cow and horse, swelling with abundance, for the sacrificer who presses the soma.

Like the sun stretching himself, like a great cow giving birth — let the shouts of the Vṛtra-slaying prize-winners, of the prize horses and the winning chariots go forth.

The hero who conquers men, who loves glory — give us a share in the cattle-pen full of cows.

Trespass by a man’s cattle is dealt with exactly like trespass by himself;

The rule does not apply to damage done by cattle straying off a highway on which they are being lawfully driven:

Blackstone says that “a man is answerable for not only his own trespass, but that of his cattle also:

By drinking the milk of a brown cow, by having intercourse with a Brāhmaṇa woman, and by deliberating on the syllables of the Veda, a Śūdra becomes an outcaste (*caṇḍāla*).

A Brāhmaṇa who, out of ignorance, follows a deceased Kṣatriya, becomes impure for one day and is purified by consuming *pañcagavya* (the five products of the cow).

They should give a cow along with a bull to a Brāhmaṇa as a sacrificial fee (*dakṣiṇā*).

Until then, hair from a cow's tail must be worn according to the rule.

If his top-knot is cut by an enemy, he should immediately wear hair from a cow's tail on his ear and, being pure, should perform a Prājāpatya penance.

For neglecting the death anniversary out of delusion, one should perform two *kṛcchra* penances, a recitation of the Gāyatrī ten thousand times, and the gift of a cow.

Having given her, adorned, to a Brāhmaṇa, he obtains the fruit of giving the earth.

On the full moon of *Prauṣṭhapada* (प्रौष्ठपद), conjoined with the Proṣṭhapadā constellation, by the gift of a cow, he is freed from all sins.

> Having given a cow with her calf, facing both ways, a man who has faith and is concentrated / > Attains heaven for as many ages as there are hairs on her body.

Then the great sage Trijaṭa, together with his wife, joyfully received the herd of cattle and in return offered to the great-souled one blessings that swelled with fame, strength, joy, and happiness.

"Not even one of a thousand cows has yet been distributed by me;

cows did not suckle their calves.

When a man enjoys many women altogether, it is called the "congress of a herd of cows.

When a woman stands on her hands and feet like a quadruped, and her lover mounts her like a bull, it is called the "congress of a cow.

They are not however on this account to be abandoned, because religious law, on the authority of which they are reckoned pure, lays down that the udder of a cow is clean at the time of milking, though the mouth of a cow, and also the mouth of her calf, are considered unclean by the Hindoos.

and if he apprehends evil and inclines to it, he is more astray than the cattle and is like Satan, and his soul is that which commands to evil.

And your enemies, by God, have among them righteous men and men of sense and men of excellence, just as your friends have among them reprobates and liars and ignoramuses and idlers and blocks of wood and cattle.

A statement (vākya) is a collection of words, as in 'bring the cow.

The instrument of comparative cognition is upamāna (comparison).

And he laughed at those who, when they were thirsty, passed the springs by, but sought by all means where they might buy Chian or Lesbian wine, and he said they were far more witless than the cattle;

his fruitful land is laden with corn, his pastures are covered with cattle, and his house is filled with good things.

Those are like cattle;

But, the court, instead of considering the precedents in relation to the concurrent right of taxation, have insisted at large upon those which relate to the constitutionality of banking, and adhered to the precedent of searching for a goose, when the thing lost was a cow.

God has let go to waste all the letters I gathered — among the donkeys and the sheep and the cattle You would say, if they keep silent, “the eagle”;

Meanwhile Castor, together with Polydeuces, are caught stealing the cattle of Idas and Lynceus;

After that he drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding cities, and he kills Troilus.

Of cows of many colors the milk yet has [but] one color;

> In the year, the daily ancestral rite, and the daily giving, / > of a cow, land, sesame, and gold, should be performed even in an intercalary month.

Now, as for *Vāyavya*, it is bathing characterized by covering the body up to the head, caused by the dust from the hooves of cows.

[VS_appendix-17s-cd] *Brāhmya is indeed bathing with mantra, and Vāyavya is the dust of cows.

And in addition to this, we reflected that cowherds are the rulers of their cattle, that grooms are the rulers of their horses, and that all who are called herdsmen might properly be regarded as the rulers of the animals over which they are placed in charge.

so that men have victims for propitiating the gods with sacrifice and cattle for their own use.

Wealth, of course, and much more so than cattle, if it be true that they are more profitable than cattle.

Know of a surety that right-minded men offer prayer for fruits and crops and cattle and horses and sheep, aye and for all that they possess.