Vaśā-cow
animal · 1 work · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Vaśī · sūtavaśā cow · the cow of the gods · the sovereign vaśā · the vaśā-cow · vaśā · vaśā cow · viliptyā cow
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The vaśā cow, a special sacred cow whose gift to Brahmins is a divinely mandated obligation, bringing prosperity if given and ruin, disease, or damnation if withheld.
The vaśā cows that the gods set apart upon arising from the sacrifice — among them Nārada singled out the fearsome viliptyā cow.
The viliptyā, O Bṛhaspati, and the sūtavaśā cow — these one should give to the Brahmins, he who desires prosperity.
He who refuses to give her to those sage-born petitioners is cut off among the gods and faces the wrath of the Brahmins.