Institutes of Vishnu — LXXXVIII.

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# LXXXVIII.

1. 1.A cow in the act of bringing forth a young one is (comparable to) the earth.

1. 1.By bestowing such a cow upon a Brâhmana, after having decked her with ornaments, he obtains the same reward as if he were to bestow the earth (upon him),

[6. See LXVIII, 6, note. LXXXVIII. 1. Y. I, 207.--4. Y. I, 206.]

1. 1.There is a stanza in regard to this subject:

1. 1.'One who full of faith and with intense application of mind gives away a pregnant cow, enters heaven for as many Yugas (or ages of the world) as that cow and her calf together have hairs on their bodies.'

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