Pāvamānī hymns
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Rigveda
The body of purification hymns (this very hymn-cycle) named and credited with ritual and material efficacy for its reciters.
Whoever reads through the Pāvamānī hymns — the juice assembled by the seers — all of it he eats purified and made savory by Mātariśvan.
Whoever reads through the Pāvamānī hymns — the juice assembled by the seers — for him Sarasvatī milks out milk, clarified butter, and honeyed water.
Yama Smṛti
A set of Vedic hymns recited for three days as purification for certain sexual transgressions.
For having intercourse with another's wife, a man, a eunuch, or with horses, goats, sheep, and other animals—/ but not with a cow—one should recite the Pāvamānī hymns for three days.