सर्वदेवमया गावः सर्वे देवास्तदात्मकाः । शृङ्गाग्रेषु महीपाल शक्रो वसति नित्यशः
sarvadevamayā gāvaḥ sarve devāstadātmakāḥ | śṛṅgāgreṣu mahīpāla śakro vasati nityaśaḥ
گائیں سراسر سب دیوتاؤں سے معمور ہیں؛ تمام دیوتا انہی میں مجسم ہیں۔ اے محافظِ زمین، ان کے سینگوں کی نوکوں پر شکر (اِندر) ہمیشہ قیام پذیر رہتا ہے۔
Mārkaṇḍeya (section context)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha sphere (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: māhīpāla / nṛpa (king addressed as ‘protector of the earth’)
Scene: A sacred cow stands calm and radiant; at the tips of her horns a small, luminous Indra is envisioned as eternally seated, suggesting the cow as a living shrine of the gods.
Reverence to the cow is framed as reverence to the entire divine order, supporting the exaltation of go-dāna.
The teaching appears within Revā-kṣetra’s dāna-vidhi, reinforcing why go-dāna there is praised.
It supports the practice of go-dāna by describing the cow as a vessel of the devas.