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Sinivali is invoked for prosperity in cattle. In a . 76 series of stable-ceremonies (gosthakarmani), Sinivali is invoked for the increase of cattle, abundance of milk and removal of animal-disease. AV II.26 (where Sinivali is mentioned and which is reckoned as pasaryam by the Anukraman) is employed in this ceremony (Kausika 19,14-21). She is worshipped in the citrayaga sacrifice also which is performed for the increase in cattle. TS II.4.6 says that those who are desirous of cattle should perform Citra sacrifice. There are seven deities who are invoked in this rite. They are I (1) Agni, (2) Soma, (3) Tvastr, (4) Sarasvat, (5) Sarasvati, (6) Sinivall and (7) Indra. It may be noted that, in the AB, Sinivall is said to be a cow, (AB 3.48) and that TS 5.6.18 enjoins the offering of three oxen to her. The association of Sin墨vall with cattle is further evidenced by the fact that she is invoked in the Vrsotsarga (turning a bull loose) ceremony (Kausika 24.19; AV 9.4.14). A barren cow is a curse to a farmer Ppp 135 deals with the deities who are wor- shipped for the removal of barrenness Sinivali is one of them. A reference may be noted in connection with the association of Sinival with the birth of a child 1 66 skr
It may be inferred that Sinivali originally presided over
the motherhood closely connected with the birth of a child.
The name Sinivall originally might have something to do
with the foetus fully sewed up in itself. In the Atharvaveda,
she is called the wife of Visnu, in later Vedic texts, she
is the presiding deity of the first day of new moon when
it rises with a scarcely visible crescent. Thus we find