24. One combines (sam-sṛj) the fighters who alone is in control (vaçín) of her; the sacrifices became energies (? táras); the cow became the eye of energies.
The Anukr. should have qualified the name of this bṛhatī by adding virāj. Ppp. combines at the beginning yudhe ’kas s-.
25. The cow accepted the sacrifice; the cow sustained the sun; within the cow entered the rice-dish together with the priest (brahmán).
Ppp. reads yajñam instead of sūryam in b. All the mss. have brahmáṇā.
26. The cow they call immortality (amṛ́ta); the cow they worship (upa-ās) as death; the cow became this all—gods, men, Asuras, Fathers, seers.
Ppp. reads āhur amṛtaṁ in a. The definition of the meter by the Anukr. is bad; it ⌊seems to be 8 + 8: 8 + 14⌋.
27. Whoso knoweth thus, he may accept the cow; for so doth the all-footed sacrifice yield milk (duh) to the giver, unresisting.
28. Three tongues glisten (dīdī) within the mouth of Varuṇa; of these, the one that shines (rāj) in the middle is the cow, hard of acceptance.
The mss., as is usual in such cases, are divided between duḥpr- and duṛpr- in d.
29. The seed of the cow was quartered: the waters a quarter, the amṛ́ta a quarter, the sacrifice a quarter, the domestic animals a quarter.
30. The cow [is] the sky, the cow the earth, the cow Vishṇu, Prajāpati; the yield (dugdhá) of the cow did the Perfectibles (sādhyá) and they who are Vasus drink.
31. Having drunk the yield of the cow, the Perfectibles and they who are Vasus—they verily worship the milk (páyas) of her at the summit of the ruddy one.
Ppp. reads ime instead of te vāi at beginning of c. The definition of the meter by the Anukr. is bad, the verse being, by usual and easy resolutions, a regular anuṣṭubh.
32. Some milk her for soma; some worship ghee; they who gave the cow to the one knowing thus are gone to the triple heaven of the heaven.
The pada-mss., by an absurd blunder, read yā́ before evám into yáḥ instead of yé. It is apparently the intrusion of vaçā́m into c that makes the meter irregular. ⌊Pādas a, b are a reminiscence of RV. x. 154. 1 (= AV. xviii. 2. 14).⌋
33. Having given the cow to the Brahmans, one attains all worlds; for righteousness is set in her, also bráhman, likewise penance.
Ppp. reads in a vaçā dattvā brāh-, and in c āhitam instead of ārpitam.
