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# Matsyapurana 61.48

Matsyapurāṇa 61.48

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [61.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.61.48)

śvetāṃ ca dadyādyadi śaktirasti raupyaiḥ khurair hemamukhīṃ savatsām  
dhenuṃ naraḥ kṣīravatīṃ praṇamya savatsaghaṇṭābharaṇāṃ dvijāya //

> The devotee, if he can afford it, should give away a milch cow, along with her calf, after getting her hoofs covered with silver, and horns covered with gold, and wearing a bell round her neck, to a Brâhmaṇa.—48.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.61.p6-3) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.61.48) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.22.54) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Matsya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.matsya.60.48) — Sanskrit

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