The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISHNU.

XCII, 2.

2. By doing so he obtains that place of abode
(after death) which he desires himself.
3. By giving land he obtains the same (heavenly
reward).
4. By giving land to the extent of a bull’s hide
only he is purified from every sin.
5. By giving a cow he attains heaven.
6. A giver of ten milch cows (obtains) the man-
sion of cows (after death).
7. A giver of a hundred milch cows enters the
mansions of Brahman (after death).
8. He who gives (a milch cow) with gilt horns,
with hoofs covered with silver, with a tail wound
with a string of pearls, with a milk-pail of white
copper, and with a cover of cloth, shall reside in
heaven for as many years as the cow has hairs on
her body ;
9. Particularly, if it is a brown cow.
10. He who has given a tamed bull is (equal in
virtue to) a giver of ten milch cows.
IV, 231; Y. I, 208. — 8, 9. Y. I, 204, 205. — 10. Y. I, 210. —
10-12. M. IV, 231. — 12, 13. Y. I, 210. — 13, 14. M. IV, 230.
-—19, 20. M. IV, 232; Y. I, 211. — 21-23. M. IV, 229, 232. —
21. Y. I, 210.— 27. M. IV, 232; Y. I, 211.— 28-32. Y. I,
211. — 31. M. IV, 230.
4. Nand. defines ‘a bull’s hide’ as a measure of surface 300
Hastas (see X, 2, note) long by ten Hastas broad. See, however,
V, 183.
8. According to a Smn'ti quoted by Nand., the gold upon the
horns of the cow shall weigh ten Suvamas, the silver on her hoofs
ten Palas, the white copper of which the milk-pail is made fifty
Palas, and she shall have copper on her back, which must also
weigh fifty Palas.
9. ‘ The meaning is, that a brown cow sends even his ancestors
as far as the seventh degree to heaven, as Yag-navalkya (I, 205)
says.’ (Nand.)