Matsyapurana 82.22

82.22

mantrāvāhanasaṃyuktāḥ sadā parvaṇi parvaṇi
yathāśraddhaṃ pradātavyā bhuktimuktiphalapradāḥ //

The devotee should give away, with faith, these cows to attain and guḍay and emancipation, on occasions of different festivals, accompanied the invocation of mantras. I have already explained in connection with the gift, the gift of other symbolical cows. These of all sins, the givers of the fruits of innumerable auspicious.—22-23.