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Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 5.2

5.2.1

iyaṃ pitre rāṣṭry ety agre
prathamāya januṣe bhūmaniṣṭhāḥ |
tasmā etaṃ surucaṃ hvāram ahyaṃ
gharmaṃ śrīṇanti prathamasya dhāsyoḥ ||

5.2.2

brahma jajñānaṃ prathamaṃ purastād
vi sīmataḥ suruco vena āvaḥ |
sa budhnyā upamā asya viṣṭhāḥ
sataś ca yonim asataś ca vi vaḥ ||

5.2.3

pra yo jajñe vidvām̐ asya bandhuṃ
viśvāni devo janimā vivakti |
brahma brahmaṇa uj jabhāra madhyān
nīcād uccā svadhā abhi pra tasthau ||

5.2.4

mahān mahī askabhāyad vi jāto
dyāṃ dvitaḥ pārthivaṃ ca rajaḥ |
sa budhnād āṣṭra januṣābhy agraṃ
bṛhaspatir devatā tasya samrāṭ ||

5.2.5

nūnaṃ tad asya gavyaṃ hinoti
maho devasya pūrvasya mahi |
eṣa jajñe bahubhiḥ sākam itthā
pūrvād ardhād avithuraś ca san nu ||

5.2.6

sa hi divaḥ sa pṛthivyā ṛteṣṭhā
mahi kṣāman rajasī vi ṣkabhāyati |
ahar yac chukraṃ jyotiṣo janiṣṭa-
-adhā dyumanto vi vasantv ariprāḥ ||

5.2.7

evātharvā pitaraṃ viśvadevaṃ
bṛhaspatir namasāvocad accha |
tvaṃ viśvasya janitā dhāsy agre
kavir devān na dabhāya svadhāvaḥ ||

5.2.8

mūrdhnā yo agram abhyarty ojasā
bṛhaspatim ā vivāsanti devāḥ |
bhinad valaṃ vi mṛdho dardarīti
kanikradad gāḥ svar apo jigāya ||

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