If the rod of chastisement be not taken up, the dog will lick the sacrificial butter. If that rod were not raised up, the crow also would take away the first (sacrificial) offering.
हविःश्वा प्रलिहेद् दृष्ट्वा दण्डश्चेन्नोद्यतो भवेत्। हरेत् काकः पुरोडाशं यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥