The Sataudanā Or Hundredfold Oblation
rivals cast this bolt of thunder,
Indra first gave the Hundredfold Oblation, welfare of him who
worships, foe-destroying.
2. Thy skin shall be the Altar; let thine hair become the Sacred
Grass.
This cord hath held thee firmly: let this pressing-stone dance
round on thee:
3. The holy water be thy hair: let thy tongue make thee clean, O
Cow.
Go, Hundredfold Oblation, made bright and adorable, to hea-
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4. He who prepares the Hundredfold Oblation gains each wish
thereby:
For all his ministering priests, contented, move as fitteth them.
5. He rises up to heaven, ascends to younder third celestial
height.
Whoever gives the Hundredfold Oblation with the central
cake.
6. That man completely wins those worlds, both of the heavens
and of the earth,
Whoever pays the Hundredfold. Oblation with its golden light.
7. Thine Immolators, Goddess! and the men who dress thee for
the feast, all these will guard thee, Hundredfold Oblation!
Have no fear of them.
8. The Vasus from the South will be thy guards, the Maruts from
the North,
Ādityas from the West; o'ertake and pass the Agnishtoma,
thou!
9. The Gods, the Fathers, mortal men, Gandharvas, and Apsara-
ses,
All these will be the guards: o'ertake and pass the Atirātra,
thou!
10. The man who pays the Hundredfold Oblation winneth all the
worlds,
Air, heaven, and earth, Ādityas, and Maruts, and regions of the
sky.
11. Sprinkling down fatness, to the Gods will the beneficent God-
dess go.
Harm not thy dresser, Cow! To heaven, O Hundredfold Obla-
tion, speed!
12. From all the Gods enthroned in heaven, in air, from those who
dwell on earth,
Draw forth for evermore a stream of milk, of butter, and of
mead.
13. Let thy head, let thy mouth, let both thine ears, and those two
jaws of thine.
Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter, milk, and
mead.
14. Let both thy lips, thy nostrils, both thy horns, and these two
eyes of thine. p. 35
Pour for the given, etc.
15. Let heart and pericardium, let thy lungs with all the bronchial
tubes, etc.
16. Let liver, and let kidneys, let thine entrails, and the parts within,
etc.
17. Let rectum and omentum, let thy belly's hollows, and thy skin,
etc.
18. Let all thy marrow, every bone, let all thy flesh, and all thy
blood, etc.
19. Let both thy shoulders and thy hump, thy forelegs, and their
lower parts, etc.
20. Let neck and nape and shoulder-joints, thy ribs and inter-costal
parts, etc.
21. So let thy thighs and thy knee-bones, thy hinder quarters, and
thy hips, etc.
22. So let thy tail and all the hairs thereof, thine udder, and thy
teats, etc.
23. Let all thy legs, the refuse of thy feet, thy heelropes, and thy
hooves.
Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter milk, and
mead.
24. Let all thy skin, Sataudanā! let every hair thou hast, O Cow,
Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter, milk, and
mead.
25. Sprinkled with molten butter, let the two meal-cakes be sport
for thee.
Make them thy wings, O Goddess, and bear him who dresses
thee to heaven.
26. Each grain of rice in mortar or on pestle, all on the skin or in
the winnowing-basket,
Whatever purifying Mātarisvan, the Wind, hath sifted, let the
Hotar Agni make of it an acceptable oblation.
27. In the priest's hands I lay, in separate order, the sweet celestial
Waters, dropping fatness.
As here I sprinkle them may all my wishes be granted unto me
in perfect fulness. May we have ample wealth in our posses-
sion.