Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 17.16
dadāmīty eva brūyād
anu cainām abhutsata |
vaśāṃ brahmabhyo yācadbhyas
tat prajāvad apatyavat ||
prajayā sa vi krīṇīte
paśubhiś copa dasyati |
ya ārṣeyebhyo yācadbhyo
devānāṃ gāṃ na ditsati ||
kūṭayāsya saṃ śīryante
śroṇayā kāṭam ardati |
baṇḍayā dahyante gṛhāḥ
kāṇayā jīyate svam ||
vilohito adhiṣṭhānāc
chakno vindati gopatim |
tathā vaśāyāḥ sāṃvidyaṃ
duradabhnā hy ucyase ||
yo asyāḥ karṇāv āskunoty
ā sa deveṣu vṛścate |
lakṣma kurva iti manyate
kanīyaḥ kṛṇute svam ||
pador asyā adhiṣṭhānād
viklindur nāma vindati |
anāmanāt saṃ śīryante
yā mukhenopajighrati ||
yad asyā gopatau satyā
loma dhvāṅkṣo ajīhiḍat |
tataḥ kiśorā mriyante
vatsāṃś ca ghātuko vṛkaḥ ||
yad asyāḥ kasmai cid bhogāya
bālān kaś cit pra kṛntati |
tataḥ kumārā mriyante
yakṣmaś chantsaty anāmanāt ||
yad asyāḥ palpulanāya
śakṛd dāsī samasyati |
tato 'pirūpaṃ jāyate
tasmād avyeṣyad enasaḥ ||
jāyamānābhi jāyate
devān sabrāhmaṇān vaśā |
tasmād brahmabhyo deyaiṣā
tad āhuḥ svasya gopanam ||
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