Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 18.26
na tasmāt pūrvaṃ na paraṃ nv asti
na bhūtaṃ nota bhavyaṃ yad āsīt |
sahasrapād ekamūrdhā dvyātmā
sa evedam ā varīvarti bhūtam ||
ekaikaṃ ye apatan suparṇāḥ
somaṃ dipsanto 'hyā nibāḍhāḥ |
kas teṣāṃ veda pitaraṃ mātaraṃ ca
ko nidānaṃ ka ātmānam eṣām ||
yebhir vāta iṣitaḥ pravāti
ye dadante pañca diśaḥ sadhrīcīḥ |
ya āhutim atyamanyanta devā
apāṃ netāraḥ katame ta āsan ||
imām eṣāṃ pṛthivīṃ vasta eko
antarikṣaṃ pary eko babhūva |
divam eṣāṃ dadate yo vidhartā
sarvā diśo rakṣaty eka eṣām ||
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