Verse 7

⁷He waited on the rising sun, satisfied with water the portions that are his own, and, having himself in hand, honoured the gods, the sages, the fathers, the elders and the brahmins. ⁸Cows with gold on their horns, gentle, garlanded with pearls, heavy with milk, having calved once, each of them with her calf and covered in fine cloth, ⁹the tips of their hooves cased in silver: these he gave, along with linen and deerskins and sesame, to richly adorned brahmins, herd upon herd, day after day. ¹⁰He bowed to cows, brahmins, gods, elders and teachers, and to all beings everywhere, and touched the auspicious things, which are themselves his own producings.

¹¹Then he adorned himself, who is the adornment of the world of men, with his own clothes and ornaments, with garlands not of this earth and with fragrant paste. ¹²He looked at clarified butter and at a mirror, at cows and bulls, at brahmins and the gods; he had what they wanted given to people of every class, both in the city and about the inner apartments; and he pleased his ministers with what they wanted and greeted them gladly. ¹³He shared out garlands and betel and fragrant paste to the brahmins first, then to his friends, his ministers and his wives, and only after that took them himself.