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2. Covered with truth, enclosed with fortune, enveloped with glory.

3. Set about with svadhā́, surrounded with faith, guarded by consecration, standing firm in the offering, the world her post (nidhána).

4. Bráhman her guide, the Brahman her over-lord.

5. Of the Kshatriya who takes to himself that Brahman-cow, who scathes the Brahman,—

6. There departs the happiness (sunṛ́tā), the heroism, the good luck.

7. Both force, and brilliancy, and power, and strength, and speech, and sense (indriyá), and fortune, and virtue (dhárma),—

8. And holiness (bráhman), and dominion ⌊kṣatrám⌋, and kingdom, and subjects (víças), and brightness (tvíṣi), and glory, and honor, and property,—

9. And life-time, and form, and name, and fame, and breath, and expiration, and sight, and hearing,—

10. And milk, and sap, and food, and food-eating, and righteousness, and truth, and sacrifice (iṣṭá), and bestowal (pūrtá), and progeny, and cattle:—

11. All these depart from the Kshatriya who takes to himself the Brahman-cow, who scathes the Brahman.