A hymn on the gift of the goat with five messes of rice, offered in God's name and given in charity.

1 Seize him and bring him hither. Let this offering travel, in God's acceptance, to the regions of the pious. Crossing in many a place the mighty darkness, may the giver mount to the third heaven above us.

2 I bring thee hither as an offering for the sake of the Mighty; prince, at this worship, for him who worships. Grasp firmly from behind all those who hate us: so let the worshipper's men be sinless.

3 Wash from the offering all trace of impurity; cleansed, let it be presented. Gazing on many a spot, crossing the darkness, let the giver mount to the third heaven above us.

4 Cut up this skin with the grey knife, in the name of God, dividing joint from joint, and mangle nothing. Do him no needless harm: limb by limb arrange him, and let the offering be presented.

5 With a verse of praise I set the cauldron on the fire: pour in the water; lay him down within it! Encompass him with fire, ye butchers. Cooked, let his giver reach the world where dwell the righteous.

6 Come forth hence, vexed by no pain or torment. Mount to the third heaven. Conquer and win this lucid world of splendour.

7 The goat is a bright gift: light they call it, saying that living man must give it to the scholar. Given in this world by a devout believer, the gift dispels and drives afar the darkness.

8 Let the Panchaudana goat be given in five portions. Let the giver go among the pious who have paid their worship, and dwell on the third cope of heaven.

9 Rise to that world, O giver, where dwell the righteous: pass, like a veiled Sarabha, all difficult places. The Panchaudana goat, given to a scholar, shall with all fulness satisfy the giver.

10 The Panchaudana goat, given to a scholar, sets the bestower on the pitch of heaven, in the third vault, third sky, third ridge. One only Cow, all-yielding, art thou, that yields all wishes.

11 That is the third light, the highest, that awaits the righteous. He gives the Panchaudana goat to the scholar. Given in this world by the devout believer, the gift dispels and drives afar the darkness.

12 Seeking the world of good men who have worshipped, he gives the Panchaudana goat to the scholar. Win thou this world as thy complete possession. May it be auspicious for us, accepted by God!

13 Truly the goat is a creature of God, brought forth by His power. Let the offering, fully made with the cry of consecration, be arranged at proper seasons in God's name.

14 Home-woven raiment let him give, and gold as guerdon to the learned. So he wins the favour of God in this world and the next.

15 Near to thee, O giver, approach these streams of sweet provision, distilling honey, bedecked with butter!

16 To heaven goes the righteous giver. Through such gifts the seers knew that radiant region. So may I know that holy world.

17 Let our worship rise to heaven, accepted by God, by whose bounty wealth is borne in thousands, and all precious things.

18 The Panchaudana offering, when given, transporteth, repelling destruction, to the world of bliss, the Garden. By such gifts may we win the worlds which the sun brightens.

19 The crumbs of the rice-messes attending the goat, which I have lodged with the learned or the people—may all this know us in the world of virtue, O God, at the meeting of the pathways.

20 God, the Unborn, in the beginning separated heaven and earth; He made the earth a resting-place and spread the heaven above; He made the air between, and the regions, and set both oceans in their hollows.

21 By Truth and Right He made all things; the whole together is Truth; faith is the breath of the believer. Such is the Panchaudana gift, a sacrifice unlimited.

22 A boundless sacrifice he performs, he wins himself a boundless world who gives the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a gift to the learned.

23 Let him not break the animal's bones, let him not suck the marrow out. Let the man, taking him entire, here, even here deposit him.

24 This is the true form of the gift. Food, greatness, strength are for him who giveth the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a guerdon.

25 The five gold pieces, and the five new garments, and the five milch-kine yield him all his wishes who gives the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a gift to the learned.

26 The five gold pieces are a light to light him, robes become armour to defend his body; he winneth the Garden as his home who giveth the Panchaudana goat enhanced with bounty.

27 When she who hath been wedded finds a second husband afterward, the twain shall not be parted if they give the Panchaudana goat.

28 One world with the re-wedded wife becomes the second husband's home who gives the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a gift to the learned.

29 They who have given a cow who drops a calf each season, or an ox, a coverlet, a robe, or gold, go to the loftiest sphere of heaven.

30 Himself, the father and the son, the grandson, and the father's sire, mother, wife, her who bore his babes, all the beloved ones I call.

31 The man who knows the season named the Scorching—the Panchaudana gift belongs to this scorching season—he lives himself, he verily outshines his rival's fame, who gives the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a gift to the learned.

32 The man who knows the season called the Working takes to himself the active fame that was his rival's. The Panchaudana gift belongs to this Working season. He lives himself, and outshines his rival's fame.

33 The man who knows the season called the Meeting takes to himself the gathering fame that was his rival's. The Panchaudana gift belongs to this Meeting season.

34 The man who knows the season called the Swelling takes to himself the swelling fame that was his rival's. The Panchaudana gift belongs to this Swelling season. He lives himself, and outshines his rival's fame.

35 The man who knows the season called the Rising takes to himself the rising fame that was his rival's. The Panchaudana gift belongs to this Rising season.

36 The man who knows the season called Surpassing takes to himself the conquering fame that was his rival's. The Panchaudana gift belongs to this Conquering season. He lives himself, he verily outshines his rival's fame who gives the Panchaudana goat enhanced with a gift to the learned.

37 He cooks the animal and the five messes of boiled rice for the poor and the learned. May the whole world, in all its quarters, receive it from thee in harmony.

38 May these preserve it for thee. Here offer the molten butter as an offering for God's sake.