Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 17.9
yasmād ṛco apātakṣaṃ
yajur yasmād apākaṣan |
chandāṃsi yasya lomāni
skambhaṃ taṃ brūhi katamaḥ svid eva saḥ ||
asacchākhāṃ pratiṣṭhantīṃ
paramam iva janā viduḥ |
uto san manyante 'vare
ye 'sya śākhām upāsate
yatrādityāś ca rudrāś ca
vasavaś ca samāhitāḥ |
skambhaṃ taṃ brūhi katamaḥ svid eva saḥ ||
yasya trayastriṃśad devā
nidhiṃ rakṣanti sarvadā |
nidhiṃ tam adya ko veda
yaṃ devā abhirakṣata ||
yatra devā brahmavido
brahma jyeṣṭham upāsate |
yo vai ta brāhmaṇo veda
taṃ vai brahmavido viduḥ ||
bṛhanto nāma te devā
asatas pari jajñire |
ekaṃ tad aṅgaṃ skambhasya-
-asad āhuḥ paro janāḥ ||
yatra skambhaḥ prajanayan
purāṇaṃ vyavartayat |
ekaṃ tad aṅgaṃ skambhasya
purāṇam anu saṃ viduḥ ||
yatra trayastriṃśad devā
aṅgā gātrāṇi bhejire |
tān vai trayastriṃśad devān
eke brahmavido viduḥ ||
hiraṇyagarbhaṃ paramam
anatyudyaṃ janā viduḥ |
skambhas tad agre prāsiñcad
dhiraṇyaṃ loke antarā ||
skambhe lokāḥ skambhe tapaḥ
skambhe 'dhy ṛtam āhitam |
skambhaṃ tvā vidma pratyakṣam
indre sarvaṃ samāhitam ||
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