That man who takes himself only one meal a day and with the other meal saved for some time purchases a cow and makes a gift of it, acquires, through that gift, O you of a hundred sacrifices, the eternal merit of the gift of as many kine as there are hairs on the body of that single cow so given away.
एकेनैव च भक्तेन यः क्रीत्वा गां प्रयच्छति। यावन्ति तस्या रोमाणि सम्भवन्ति शतक्रतो॥