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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
I take thy body, hail!” let him then say, “Drive up another (cow)!” and that one shall be thy samrågcow!' He then departed from thence, and, verily, members of the Kesin race are born here even to this day.
Sayana takes this thus :— Thus instructed, Kesin disappeared (or, passed away, vanished, utsasáda vinashtar) from that region (tato desât) '-after which there is a lacuna in the MS. Perhaps, however, it is Khandika, rather than Kesin, to which this refers, he (and his race) then, indeed, passed away from that region, whilst the Kesins flourished.
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