Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 16.18
kutas tau jātau katamaḥ so ardhaḥ
kasmāl lokāt katarasyāḥ pṛthivyāḥ |
vatsau virājaḥ salilād udaitāṃ
tau tvā pṛcchāmi katareṇa dugdhā ||
yo 'krandayat salilaṃ mahitvā
yoniṃ kṛtvā tribhujaṃ śayānam |
vatsaḥ kāmadugho virājo
guhā cakre tanvaḥ parācīḥ ||
yāni catvāri bṛhanti
yeṣāṃ caturthaṃ viyunakti vācam |
brahmainad vidyāt tapasā vipaścid
yasminn ekaṃ yujyate yasminn ekam ||
bṛhataḥ pari sāmāni
ṣaṣṭhāt pañcādhi nirmitā |
bṛhad bṛhatyā nirmitaṃ
kuto 'dhi bṛhatī mitā ||
bṛhatī pari mātrāyā
mātur mātrādhi nirmitā |
māyā hi jajñe māyāyā
māyāyā mātalī pari ||
vaiśvānarasya pratimopari dyaur
yāvad rodasī vibabādhe agniḥ |
tataḥ ṣaṣṭhād āmuto yanti stomā
ud ito yanty abhi ṣaṣṭham ahnaḥ ||
ṣaṭ ṭvā pṛcchāma ṛṣayaḥ kaśyapedaṃ
tvaṃ hi yuktaṃ yuyukṣe yogyaṃ ca |
virājam āhur brahmaṇaḥ pitaraṃ
tāṃ no vi dhehy ṛtuthā sakhibhyaḥ ||
yāṃ pracyutām anu yajñāḥ pracyuvanta
upatiṣṭhanta upatiṣṭhamānām |
tasyā vraje prasave yakṣam ejati
sā virāḍ ṛṣayaḥ parame vyoman ||
aprāṇaiti prāṇena prāṇatīnāṃ
virāṭ svarājam abhy eti paścāt |
viśvaṃ mṛśantīm abhirūpāṃ virājaṃ
paśyanti tve na tve paśyanty enām ||
ko virājo mithunatvaṃ pra veda
ka ṛtūn ka u kalpam asyāḥ |
kramān ko asyā bahudhā vidugdhān
ko asyā dhāma katidhā vyuṣṭīḥ ||
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