Atharvaveda · Sūkta 1.22

1.22.1

अनु सूर्यमुदयतां हृद्द्योतो हरिमा च ते ।
गो रोहितस्य वर्णेन तेन त्वा परि दध्मसि ॥ १.२२.१ ॥

Let heart-burn and yellowness rise after the sun. With the colour of the red cow, with that we place you around.

परि त्वा रोहितैर्वर्णैर्दीर्घायुत्वाय दध्मसि ।
यथायमरपा असदथो अहरितो भुवत् ॥ १.२२.२ ॥

With red colours we place you around for long life, so that this one may be unblemished and not turn yellow-pale.

या रोहिणीर्देवत्या गावो या उत रोहिणीः ।
रूपंरूपं वयोवयस्ताभिष्ट्वा परि दध्मसि ॥ १.२२.३ ॥

Those divine red cows, and those red cows too, form by form, age by age, with them we place you around.

शुकेषु ते हरिमाणं रोपणाकासु दध्मसि ।
अथो हारिद्रवेषु ते हरिमाणं नि दध्मसि ॥ १.२२.४ ॥

Your yellowness we place in the parrots and in the ropaṇā-plants; and your yellowness we place down in the turmeric-yellow things.