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Quotes from the Vedas On Cow. yadi
no gA.m ha.nsi yadyashvam yadi pUrushham . ta.m
tvA sIsena vidhyAmo yathA no so avIrahA ..## Av 1.16.4 ## If you kill our cow, our horse or our man, we shall pierce you with lead, so that you may no more be killed of our brave men. - Av 1.16.4 O house, may you stand at this place permanently, rich with horses (asvanti), with cows (gomati) and with truthful as well as pleasing speech (sunritavati). May you flourish full of vigor, full of clarified butter, full of milk for our great fortune (prosperity). -Av. 3.12.2 O house, supported on pillars you are, having big roof. You are full of cleaned food grains. May calves, and steers come to you and in the evening may the cows come streaming (with mink.). -Av. 3.12.3. I
hereby bring about unity of your hearts and unity of minds, free from
malice. may each one of you love the other as a cow loves its new-born
calf. -Av. 3.30.1 yathA
mA.msa yathA surA yathAxA adhudevane. yathA
pu.mso vR^ishhaNyata striyAm nihanyate mahaH. evA
te aghnye manodhi vatse ni hanyatAm ..## -Av 6.70.1 ## As
meat is attached with wine; as dice are attached with a gambling place;
as the mind of a passionate man is attached to a woman; so O inviolable
one (cow), let your mind be attached to your calf (vatsa). -Av 6.70.1 yadannamadmi
bahudhA virUpam hiraNyamashvamuta gAmajAmavim. yadeva
kim ca pratijagrahAhamagnishhTaddhotA suhutam kR^iNotu..## -Av 6.71.1## The
food of various types, which I often eat, and the gold, horse, or cow,
goat and sheep, whatever I have taken, may the adorable Lord, the
offerer, make all that properly obtained. mugdhA
devA uta shunAyajantota gora.DgaiH purudhAyajanta. ya
imam yaGYam manasA ciketa pra No vocastamiheha bravaH..## -Av 7.5.5 ## Soma
confused sacrificers offer as an oblation a dog, or some parts of a cow;
they offer oblations of various sorts. Let him, who knows how to perform
this sacrifice with the spirit, proclaim to us; let him explain that,
here and now. -Av 7.5.5 etA
enAvyAkaram khile gA vishhThitA iva. ramantAm
puNyA laxmIryAH pApIstA anIshanam..## -Av 7.120.4 ## Those
and those I have separated like cows straying on a common pasture. What
propitious wealth (punya laxmi) are there, any they stay here; and which
are evil (papih) ones, them I drive away. -Av 7.120.4 brAhmaNebhyo
vashAm dattvA sarvAn lokAn samashnute. R^Itam
hi asyAm Arpitam api brahma atho iti tapaH..## -Av 10.10.33 ## By
donating a cow to the intellectual persons, one wins all the worlds.
Surely within her is set the righteousness, the knowledge and the
penance as well. -Av
10.10.33 tasmAt
vai vidvan purushham idam brahma iti manyate. sarvAH
hi asmin devatAH gAvaH gosthe.a{iva} Asate..## -Av 11.8.32 ## Therefore,
indeed, one who knows the man (purusha) thinks " this is
brahman," for all deities are seated in him, as cows in a
cow-stall. -Av 11.8.32 janam
bibhratI bahu.adhA vi.avAcasam nAnA.adharmANam pR^ithivI yathA.a{o}kasam. sahastram
dhArAH dravINam me duhAm dhruvA.aeva dhenuH anapa.asphurantI..## -Av
12.1.45 ## Let
the earth, bearing in many places people of different speech, of diverse
customs, according to their homes, yield me a thousand streams of
prosperity, like a steady unresisting milch-cow. -Av
12.1.45
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