Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 16.69
ya īṃ cakāra na so asya veda
ya īṃ dadarśa hirug in na tasmāt |
sa mātur yonā parivīto antar
bahuprajā nirṛtim ā viveśa ||
dyaur naḥ pitā janitā nābhir atra
bandhur no mātā pṛthivī mahīyam |
uttānayoś camvor yonir antar
atrā pitā duhitur garbham ādhāt ||
pṛcchāmi tvā param antaṃ pṛthivyāḥ
pṛcchāmi tvā bhuvanasya nābhim |
pṛcchāmi tvā vṛṣṇo aśvasya reto
vācaḥ pṛcchāmi paramaṃ vyoma ||
iyaṃ vediḥ paro antaḥ pṛthivyā
ayaṃ yajño bhuvanasya nābhiḥ |
ayaṃ somo vṛṣṇo aśvasya reto
brahmāyāṃ vācaḥ paramaṃ vyoma ||
saptārdhagarbhā bhuvanasya reto
viṣṇos tiṣṭhanti pradiśo vidharmaṇi |
te dhītibhir manasā te vipaścitaḥ
paribhuvaḥ pari bhavanti viśvataḥ ||
na vi jānāmi yad ivedam asmi
niṇyaḥ sannaddho manasā carāmi |
yadā māgan prathamajā ṛtasya-
-ād id vāco aśnuve bhāgam asyāḥ ||
apāṅ prāṅ eti svadhayā gṛbhīto
'martyo martyenā sayoniḥ |
tā śaśvantā viṣūcīnā viyantā
ny anyaṃ cikyur na ci cikyur anyam ||
ṛco akṣare parame vyoman
yasmin devā adhi viśve niṣeduḥ |
yas tan na veda kim ṛcā kariṣyati
ya it tad vidus ta ime sam āsate ||
ṛcaḥ padaṃ mātrayā kalpayanto
'rdharcena cākl̥pur viśvam ejat |
tripād brahma pururūpaṃ vi caṣṭe
tena jīvanti pradiśaś catasraḥ ||
sūyavasād bhagavatī hi bhūyā
atho vayaṃ bhagavantaḥ syāma |
addhi tṛṇam aghnye viśvadānīṃ
piba śuddham udakam ācarantī ||
gaurīr mimāya salilāni takṣaty
ekapadī dvipadī sā catuṣpadī |
aṣṭāpadī navapadī babhūvuṣī
sahasrākṣarā bhuvanasya paṅktis
tasyāḥ samudrā adhi vi kṣaranti ||
athāpād eti prathamā padvatīnāṃ
kas tad vāṃ mitrāvaruṇā ciketa |
garbho bhāraṃ bharaty ā cid asya
ṛtaṃ piparty anṛtaṃ ni pāti ||
kṛṣṇaṃ niyānaṃ harayaḥ suparṇā
apo vasānā divam ut patanti |
tā āvavṛtrant sadanād ṛtasya-
-ād id ghṛtena pṛthivīṃ vy ūduḥ ||
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