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it was on that occasion also that the gods, uniting together, made Mahādeva the lord of animals. Cows yield Soma in the form of milk. Blessing upon the reader.—Vaiçampāyana continued: Yudhishṭhira and his brother began to make gifts of both bulls and cows of different colours to brahmans, Yudhishṭhira performing many sacrifices (XIII, 78). Bhishma said: In days of yore, king Saudāsa of Ikshvāku's race asked his purohita R. Vasisṭha what is most sacred and most productive of merit; Vasisṭha enlarged upon the mystery relating to kine; svāhā and vaṣaṭ are for ever established in kine; what is meant by Gomati (XIII, 78). Continuation of Vasisṭha's discourse on the pre-eminent sanctity of kine; the diverse merits attaching to gifts of different kinds of kine: Brahmaloka, etc. (κ), (XIII, 79). Vasisṭha commented on the purificatory mantras having reference to kine; "those who make gifts of 1,000 kine, departing from this world, proceed to the region of G. and Aps., where there are many palatial mansions made of gold, and Vasor dhārā (i.e. Mandākinī, Nīl.); . . . . by giving away a Kapilā cow, etc., one succeeds in entering the palace of Yama that is so difficult to enter." — Bhishma said: Saudāsa, honouring these words of R. Vasisṭha, made gifts of a very large number of kine unto the brahmans, and attained to many worlds of felicity in the next life (XIII, 80).