Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 17.5
yasyāṃ gāyanti nṛtyanti
janā martyā vailavāḥ |
yujyante yasyām ākrando
yasyāṃ vadati dundubhiḥ |
sā no bhūmiḥ pra ṇudatāṃ sapatnān
yo no dveṣṭy adharaṃ taṃ kṛṇotu ||
yasyāṃ puro devakṛtāḥ
kṣetre yasyāṃ vikurvate |
prajāpatiḥ pṛthivīṃ viśvagarbhām
āśāmāśāṃ raṇyāṃ naḥ kṛṇotu ||
janaṃ bibhratī bahudhā vivācasaṃ
nānādharmāṇaṃ pṛthivī yathaukasam |
sahasraṃ dhārā draviṇasya no duhāṃ
dhruveva dhenur anapasphurantī ||
yas te sarpo vṛścikas tṛṣṭadaṃśmā
hemantajabdho bhṛmalo guhā śaye |
krimir ilmaṃ pṛthivi prāvṛṣi yad ejati
tan naḥ sarpan mopa sṛpad
yac chivaṃ tena no mṛḍa ||
ye te panthāno bahudhā janāyanā
rathasya vartman manasaś ca yātave |
yebhiś caranty ubhaye bhadrapāpās
taṃ panthāṃ jayemānamitram ataskaram ||
mandaṃ (⟨ malvaṃ?) bibhratī gurubhṛd
bhadrapāpasya nidhanaṃ titikṣuḥ |
sūkareṇa pṛthivī saṃvidānā
varāhāya vi jihīte mṛgāya ||
ye ta āranyāḥ paśavo mṛgā vane hitāḥ
siṃhā vyāghrāḥ puruṣādaś caranti |
ulaṃ vṛkaṃ pṛthivi ducchunām ita
ṛkṣīkāṃ rakṣo apa badhāsmat ||
ye gandharvāpsaraso
ye carāyāḥ kimīdinaḥ |
piśācān sarvā rakṣāṃsi
tān asmad bhūme yāvaya ||
yāṃ dvipādaḥ pakṣiṇaḥ saṃpatanti
haṃsāḥ suparṇāḥ śakunā vayāṃsi |
yasyāṃ vāta īyate mātariśvā
rajāṃsi kṛṇvaṃś cyāvayaṃś ca vṛkṣān |
vātasya pravām upavām anu vāty arcir
yasyāṃ kṛṣṇam aruṇaṃ ca saṃbhṛte
ahorātre vihite bhūmyām adhi ||
varṣeṇa bhūmiḥ pṛthivī vṛtāvṛtā |
sā no dadhātu bhadrayā
priye dhāmanidhāmani ||
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