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of one who raises his foot to kick a cow or a brahman or a fire become filled with fear; that D. become highly dissatisfied, and that he himself has to be roasted in hell (*narake pacyate*) for 100 ages; fire refuses to accept his libations. *Viśvāmitra* said: He who offers rice boiled in sugared milk to P., facing the south, at noon, in the first "elephant shade" (*gajacchāyāyām pūrvasyām*, v. BR.), when in the month of *Bhādrapada* [the conjunction of the moon with] *Maghā* takes place in the dark fortnight, has [thereby] performed a great *śrāddha* [every year] for thirteen years [in succession]. The cows said: († v. 6042-5) that man becomes free from his sins who adores a cow, saying: ". . . in *Brahmapura* (city of *Brahmán*), in days of yore, thou wast present; thy calf at the sacrifice of *Indra*; thou who stood *Viṣṇupada* and in the path of *Agni* (? *Vibhāvaso*); gods with *Nārada* call thee *Sarvasahā*"; he in regions (*lokān*) of *Indra*, etc. They that ambulated Brahman, and *Vasiṣṭha* asked how men may acquire the merits attaching to a bath, answered: If one, in the bright fortnight of *Pauṣa*, when *Rohiṇī* is in conjunction with a bath, lies under the open sky, wearing a garment, with faith, and contemplates the rays of the sun, he attains the sacrifices. This is the path of the recommended.