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88. Samlianyat vavnajan dos&n snigdhavarno bhavet yadi; 

 bala dhikasca sugatirmakan sarvangasimdarah, 

 natikrurah sada pujyo bhramadyairapi dusitah. 



89. Parinako vrsainukkat udare tu caturgunah 



sa kakut trigimoceam tu sardhatrigunadirgliata. 180 



90. Saptatalo vrsah pujyo gunairetairyuto yadi 



na sthayi na ca vai mandah suvodha hyangasundarak, 

 natikrurah suprsthah ca vrsabhah srestka ucyate. 



91. Trim^adyo j anaganta va pratyakam bkaravakakah 

 dasatalasca 143 sudrdhah sumukhostrali prasasyate. 185 



92. Satam ayurmanusyanam gajanam paramam smrtam 

 manusyagajayorbalyam yavat virrisativatsaram. 



88. If however the colour is agreeable it suspends all faults 



arising from colour ; and a horse which is very strong, 

 goes well, is large, beautiful in all its limbs, not very 

 fierce is always to be honoured, even if spoiled by 

 feathers. 



89. The circumference of the belly is four times the size of a Bull. 



bull's head, three times its size is the height and three 

 and a half times its length. 



90. A bull which is seven spans high, if provided with good 



qualities, is to be respected. A bull which does neither 

 stop, nor is slow, carries well, is moreover beautiful in 

 limbs, is not very fierce, has a good back ; is called the 

 best bull. 



91. A camel, which goes daily thirty yojanas while carrying Camel. 



loads, is ten spans high, very strong and has a fine 

 head, is praised 



92. A hundred vears is recorded as the longest life of men and A S e of . 



J ° men arid 



elephants, the youth of men and elephants is reckoned elephants, 

 up to twenty years. 



143 " navatalasca" is a different reading in one MS. 



