In English
The third one is the debt towards one’s parents. You are born through your father and he has protected you throughout your life. You have to repay the debt you owe him. Not only that, when a son is born to his father, the son should make an attempt to maintain the dignity, the honour and the reputation of his own father. We should make an attempt to preserve the faith which our forefathers have earned. It is with a view to repaying these three categories of debts that undertook to perform the and the . In the , the sacrificial horse is a very sacred element. That should be a pure white horse without any dark patches on it. The ears should protrude out in a beautiful manner. The hair on the neck of this horse should also be very attractive and straight. The tail of that horse should be so long that it touches the bottom of the feet. In the attempt to look for and locate such a sacred horse which satisfies the requirements, some effort is required. During the period of , such a horse is let out, and by the time the horse goes round and comes back to the place where it was left, one year will be over and the next period of comes in. We should notice here that one time has to be spent in searching for the horse, one time has to be spent in letting the horse go, a third time has to be spent in the horse returning to its original place. Thus the tells us that three years have been spent in the .