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get water wherever I like."
5
Having himself eaten, Ushasti gave his wife what was
left. But she, having eaten before, took them (i.e. the
beans) and put them away.
6
Next morning, on awaking, he said: "Alas, if I could
get even little a to eat, I might earn some money. The
king over here is going to perform a sacrifice; he
would choose me for all the priestly offices."
7
His wife said to him: "Here, my husband, are the
beans." After eating them, he went to the sacrifice that
was about to be performed.
8
He saw there the assembled udgatri priests and sat near
them in place where they would sing the hymns. He said
to the prastotri priest: "O prastotri priest, if without
knowing the deity that belongs to Prastiva, you sing the
Prastiva, your head will fall off"
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