Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s4.261

c11.s4.261

75. Raikva is the name of the person whom the pious King Jānaśruti Pautrāyaṇa, famed for his liberality in "always keeping open house and building places of refuge everywhere so that people should everywhere eat of his food", approached for instruction with the present of "600 cows, a necklace, and a carriage with mules". But Raikva replied: "Fie, necklace and carriage be thine, O Sūdra, together with the cows." Then the king "took again 1,000 cows, a necklace, a carriage with mules, and his own daughter", whereupon Raikva relented and gave him the instruction, viz. that Vāyu (air) and Prāṇa (breath) are to be meditated upon as Brahman [*Chhānd.* iv, 1, 2. 3].