Verse 32

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The city where the hairs fell· Verses 27–32

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On both the fair banks of the Sarasvati, that river running among the sages, he looked at the wealth of the hermitages of seers who had come to quiet. The people of Brahmavarta, learning that their lord was coming, went out delighted to meet him with songs and praises and instruments. There is a city called Barhismati, furnished with every sort of wealth, where the hairs fell from the limbs of the sacrifice as he shook himself. Those very hairs became kusa and kasa grass, green and bright and never fading, with which the seers beat back the spoilers of sacrifice and performed their sacrifice. The revered Manu spread out a mat of kusa and kasa and worshipped the Person of the sacrifice, from whom he had got his standing on the earth.

The mighty one came into the place named Barhismati and settled there; and entering in that city the house that destroys the three burnings,