जरद्-गव-श्रुतिः

``The old ox sings crazy songs staying on the door with woolen sandals. A Brāhmana woman who desires a child asks him: `O king! What is the value of garlic in a salt-mine?’ "

This is quoted by Śabara and then by many others as an example of an inconsistent Vedic sentence. The problem is: We can’t locate a Vedic source for it now! It’s hard to imagine that someone (e.g., a Mīmāṃsā opponent) would have just made it up, because no one replies accordingly. They rather accept that it is Vedic and try to explain away the seeming lack of meaning…

• जरद्गवो वृषभराशिः खे, यत्र पुरावर्तत विषुवदिने सूर्यः (३००० BCE)।
• ब्राह्मणी तत्रैव प्रजापतेश् शकटे वर्तमाना रोहिणी। पुत्रो ऽग्निः → विषुवदिनसूर्यः।
• ततः पश्चाद् विषुवस्थाने ऽयनचलनकारणेन मेषराशिम् प्रति सर्पति (१४०० BCE इति काले तत्पश्चाद् वा) -
  • वृषभस्य जरा प्राचीनकाले तत्प्रामुख्यस्य सङ्केतः
  • “कम्बलपादुलाव्” इति शिशिरनिवृत्तिर् उत्तरकाले न वृषभस्थादित्ये ऽजायत +इत्यस्य सङ्केतः।
  • “राजन् रुमायां लशुनस्य कोऽर्थः” इति सङ्केतः।