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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka IV, Khanda 2
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
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Then Gânasruti Pautrâyana took six hundred cows, a necklace, and a carriage with mules, went to Raikva and said:
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'Raikva, here are six hundred cows, a necklace, and a carriage with mules; teach me the deity which you worship.'
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The other replied: 'Fie, necklace and carriage be thine, O Sûdra, together with the cows.' Then Gânasruti Pautrâyana took again a thousand cows, a necklace, a carriage with mules, and his own daughter, and went to him.
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He said to him: 'Raikva, there are a thousand cows, a necklace, a carriage with mules, this wife, and this village in which thou dwellest. Sir, teach me!'
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He, opening her mouth , said: 'You have brought these (cows and other presents), O Sûdra, but only by that mouth did you make me speak.' These are the Raikva-parna villages in the country of the Mahâvrishas (mahâpunyas) where Raikva dwelt under him . And he said to him: