Atharvavedaparishishta 9.2

English (machine translation) 9.2

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9.2.1

One should apply sandalwood paste to the heart, sugar-cane stalks for the shanks; / with golden horns, silver hooves, and a silver tail as the sacrificial fee,

9.2.2

covered with a garment, she should be given, with a bell-metal vessel as the milking pail.

9.2.3

Having consecrated her with [the mantra] "And Prajāpati...", he should give her to a Brahmin.

9.2.5

"He who would give a cow and a calf without being consecrated with the Atharvan, / without this rite, godhood does not arise [for him].

All cows are proclaimed to stand as having universal forms; / it does not attain cownood without being consecrated with a hymn; / everything perishes without fruit for the good without being consecrated.

9.2.7

Whatever sin was committed in childhood, in boyhood, or in youth, / and whatever in mature age, and whatever in other births,

9.2.8

whatever at night, likewise in the morning, whatever at midday and afternoon, / whatever sin was committed at the two twilights by deed, mind, or speech—

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Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa — Sanskrit