Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.441
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2-8.441
She [the river] reflected: 'How indeed could a bitch swim across me? Come, let me be fordable for her.'
She said to her: 'Do not swim across me; I will become fordable for you.'
'Yes,' [she replied].
There was a ford for her.
She crossed over by the ford.
She came upon them enclosed within the Rasā by Vala.
To her who had arrived, they placed before her in the same way ghee, milk, curds, and clotted curd.
She said: 'I am not so unkind to the gods that I would eat your [food] when I have found the cows.
Indeed, you live having committed theft against the gods! Truly, I am the tracker of these cows.
You will not cajole me; you will not withhold Indra’s cows.'
She stayed fasting.
She found a discarded afterbirth (jarāyu).
She chewed on that.
About her, someone sang: 'Like one that strikes, Saramā chews the afterbirth.'
Hence even today there is this saying: 'Like one that strikes, Saramā chews the afterbirth.'
For she chewed that afterbirth.
She returned.
They said to her: 'O Saramā, did you find the cows?'
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'I have found them,' she said; 'they are enclosed within the Rasā by Vala.
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Fetch them as you think fit.'
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Indra said to her then: 'O Saramā, I make your offspring eaters of food, you who found our cows.'
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They are those Mācala hounds descended from Saramā among the Vidarbhas.
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They even kill a tiger.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit