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531 12. His sides were Anumati's; his flanks (? anūvṛ́j) were Bhaga's; of his knees (aṣṭhīvánt) Mitra said: those are wholly mine.

13. His rump was the Ādityas'; his two thighs were Brihaspati's; his tail [was] the heavenly wind's; therewith he shakes the herbs.

15. His intestines (gúdā) were Sinīvālī's; they called his skin Sūryā's; they called his feet (pl.) the upstander's (utthātṛ́), when they prepared (kalpay-) the bull.

15. His breast (kroḍá) was Jāmiçaṅsa's; his vessel [was] maintained as Soma's, when all the gods, coming together, distributed (vi-kalpay-) the bull.

16. Those dew-claws (kúṣṭhikā) [were] Saramā's; they assigned the hoofs to the tortoises (kūrmá); the content of his bowels they maintained for the worms, the çavartás.

17. With his horns he pushes the demon; with his eye he slays ruin; with his ears he hears what is excellent—he who is the inviolable lord of kine.

18. With a hundred-fold sacrifice he sacrifices; the fires burn him not; all the gods quicken him, who makes offering of a bull to a Brahman.

19. Having given a bull to Brahmans, one makes his mind wider; he beholds (ava-paç) prosperity of the inviolable [kine] in his own stall.