Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 88

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TRANSLATION

After the first bathing, further bathings were conducted with panca-gavya

and then with pancamrta. Then the maha-snana was performed with ghee and

water, which had been brought in one hundred pots.

 

PURPORT

The ingredients of panca-gavya are milk, yogurt, ghee (clarified butter),

cow urine and cow dung. All these items come from the cow; therefore we can

just imagine how important the cow is, since its urine and stool are

required for bathing the Deity. The pancamrta consists of five kinds of

nectar -- yogurt, milk, ghee, honey and sugar. The major portion of this

preparation also comes from the cow. To make it more palatable, sugar and

honey are added.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 4.61