Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 17.18
heḍaṃ paśūnāṃ ny eti
brāhmaṇebhyo 'dadad vaśām |
devānāṃ nihitaṃ bhāgaṃ
martyaś cen nipriyāyate ||
yad anye śataṃ yāceyur
brāhmaṇā gopatiṃ vaśām |
athaitā devā abruvann
evaṃ ha viduṣo vaśā ||
ya evaṃ viduṣe 'dattvā-
-anyasmai dadad vaśām |
durgā tasmā adhiṣṭhāne
pṛthivī sahadevatā ||
devā vaśām ayācan
yasminn agre ajāyata |
tām etāṃ vidyān nāradaḥ
saha devair ud ājata ||
anapatyam alpapaśuṃ
vaśā kṛṇotu pūruṣam |
brāhmaṇaiś ca yācitām
athaināṃ ni priyāyate ||
agnīṣomābhyāṃ kāmāya
mitrāya varuṇāya ca |
tebhyo yācanti brāhmaṇās
tebhya ā vṛścate 'dadhat ||
yāvad asyā gopatir na-
-upaśṛṇuyād ṛcaḥ svayam |
cared asya tāvad goṣu
nāsya śrutā gṛhe syāt ||
yo asyā ṛca upaśrutya-
-atha goṣv acīcarat |
āyuś ca tasya bhūtiṃ ca
devā vṛścanti hīḍitāḥ ||
vaśā carantī bahudhā
devānāṃ nihito nidhiḥ |
āviṣkṛṇute rūpāṇi
yathā sthāma jigāṃsati ||
āvir ātmānaṃ kṛṇute
yathā sthāma jigāṃsati |
atho ha brahmabhyo vaśā
yākyāya kṛṇute manaḥ ||
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