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Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 11.9

11.9.1

kālād āpaḥ sam abhavan
kālād brahma tapo diśaḥ |
kālenod eti sūryaḥ
kāle ni viśate punaḥ ||

11.9.2

kālena vātaḥ pavate
kālena pṛthivī mahī
dyaur mahī kāla āhitā |
kālo ha bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ ca
putro ajanayat puraḥ ||

11.9.3

kālād ṛcaḥ sam abhavan
yajuṣ kālād ajāyata |
kālo yajñaṃ sam airayad
devebhyo bhāgam akṣitam ||

11.9.4

kāle gandharvāpsarasaḥ
kāle lokāḥ samāhitāḥ |
kāle 'yam aṅgirā devo
atharvā cādhi tiṣṭhataḥ ||

11.9.5

imaṃ ca lokaṃ paramaṃ ca lokaṃ
puṇyāṃś ca lokān vidhṛtīś ca puṇyāḥ |
sarvām̐l lokān abhijitya brahmaṇā
kālaḥ sa īyate paramo nu devaḥ ||

Original text: Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Edition: Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume One, Consisting of the first fifteen Kāṇḍas Calcutta The Asiatic Society Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume Two, Consisting of the sixteenth Kāṇḍa Calcutta The Asiatic Society Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume three, consisting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth · Data entry Arlo Griffiths Thomas Zehnder Philipp Kubisch Duccio Lelli Alexander Lubotsky Carmen Spiers Michael Witzel · GRETIL (Göttingen) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0