Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 13.125
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13.125.1
क्षत्रियाश्चैव शूद्राश्च मन्त्रहीनाश्च ये द्विजाः ।
कपिलामुपजीवन्ति कथमेतत्पितर्भवेत् ॥ १३.१२५.१ ॥
Kṣatriyas, śūdras, and those twice-born who are without sacred formulas live off the tawny cow. How can this be for the ancestors?
13.125.2
क्षत्रियाश्चैव शूद्राश्च मन्त्रहीनाश्च ये द्विजाः ।
कपिलामुपजीवन्ति तेषां वक्ष्यामि निर्णयम् ॥ १३.१२५.२ ॥
Concerning those warriors, śūdras, and twice-born men without sacred formulas who live off the tawny cow, I will state the ruling.
13.125.3
कपिलास्तूत्तमा लोके गोषु चैवोत्तमा मताः ।
तासां दाता लभेत्स्वर्गं विधिना यश्च सेवते ॥ १३.१२५.३ ॥
The tawny cows are held to be the best of all cows in the world. Whoever gives them according to rule, or serves them, obtains heaven.
13.125.4
स्पृशेत कपिलां यस्तु दण्डेन चरणेन वा ।
स तेन स्पर्शमात्रेण नरकायोपपद्यते ॥ १३.१२५.४ ॥
Whoever touches the tawny cow with a staff or with the foot is brought to hell by that very touch.
13.125.5
मन्त्रेण युञ्ज्यात्कपिलां मन्त्रेणैव प्रमुञ्चते ।
मन्त्रिहीनं तु यो युञ्जात्कृमियोनौ प्रसूयते ॥ १३.१२५.५ ॥
One should yoke the tawny cow with a sacred formula and release her with a sacred formula. Whoever yokes her without the formula is born in the womb of a worm.
13.125.6
प्रहाराहतमर्माङ्गा दुःखेन च जडीकृता ।
पदानि यावद्गच्छेत तावल्लोकान्कृमिर्भवेत् ॥ १३.१२५.६ ॥
The cow, her vital parts and limbs struck by blows and stupefied with pain, — for as many steps as she goes, for that many worlds the one who struck her becomes a worm.
13.125.7
यावन्तो बिन्दवस्तस्याः शोणितस्य क्षितिं गताः ।
तावद्वर्षसहस्राणि नरकं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ १३.१२५.७ ॥
For as many thousands of years as there are drops of her blood that fall upon the ground, he goes to hell.
13.125.8
मन्त्रेण युञ्ज्यात्कपिलां मन्त्रेण विनियोजयेत् ।
मन्त्रहीनैरनुयुतो मञ्जयेत्तमसि प्रभो ॥ १३.१२५.८ ॥
One should yoke the tawny cow by mantra and employ her by mantra; O lord, one joined with those lacking mantra would sink into darkness.
13.125.9
कपिलां येऽपि जीवन्ति बुद्धिमोहान्विता नराः ।
तेऽपि वर्षसहस्राणि पतन्ति नरके नृप ॥ १३.१२५.९ ॥
Those people, too, who live by the tawny cow while confused in understanding, O king, fall into hell for thousands of years.
13.125.10
अथ न्यायेन ये विप्राः कपिलामुपयुञ्जते ।
तस्मिंल्लोके प्रमोदन्ते लोकाश्चैषामनामयाः ॥ १३.१२५.१० ॥
But those brahmins who rightly make use of the tawny cow rejoice in that world, and their worlds are free from disease.
13.125.11
विधिना ये न कुर्वन्ति शूद्रास्तानुपधारय ॥ १३.१२५.११ ॥
Know that those shudras who do not act according to the rule are of that kind.