This having been said by him, Vasistha, the best of those reciting mantras, joyfully called his sacrificial dappled cow, capable of purging away sins.
एवमुक्तस्तथा तेन वसिष्ठो जपतां वरः। आजुहाव ततः प्रीतः कल्माषीं धूतकल्मषाम्॥