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of the *yajamāna*, and, therefore, should abstain for that day from sexual intercourse. R. *Vidyutprabha* asked what the atonement is for slaying worms, ants, snakes, sheep, deer, birds, etc. *Indra* answered: "Thinking of *Kurukṣetra*, etc." (β) (specification); *Vidyutprabha* recommended another rite (specification), and a "mystery" discovered by R., who he had heard from *Bṛhaspati* in the presence of *Śiva* (standing on one foot on a mountain, etc.). Asked by *Indra*, *Bṛhaspati* discoursed on the wicked persons who make water facing the sun [*Sūrya*], etc. (γ). The D., M., and R., as to what gifts at a *śrāddha* become inexhaustible. P. said: By setting free dark-coloured bulls, by gifts of sesame seeds and water on the day of new moon, and of lamps in the season of rains, men free themselves from the debt to P. Asked by *Vṛddhagārgya*, P. said: If a blue bull [upon being set free] raises water with its tail, P. become gratified by that [water] for 60,000 years; if the mud from a river bank is attached to its horns, P. go to *Somaloka*; by giving lamps in the season of rain, one shines like the moon; those who on the day of new moon make gifts of sesame seeds and water, mixed with honey, using a vessel of *uḍumbara* (*Ficus glomerata*, PCR. copper), have duly performed a *śrāddha* with its mysteries, and get cheerful and healthy children (XIII, 125). Asked by *Indra* how he becomes gratified, *Viṣṇu* said that he hates the destruction of brahmans;