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Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 9.16

9.16.1

na tatra dhenur duhe
nānaḍvān sahate dhuram |
vijānir yatra brāhmaṇo
rātriṃ vasati pāpayā ||

9.16.2

na varṣaṃ maitrāvaruṇaṃ
brahmajyam abhi varṣati |
nāsmai samitiḥ kalpate
na mitraṃ nayate vaśam ||

9.16.3

asṛṅmatī carati brahmajāyā
āśā limpantī pradiśaś catasraḥ |
yaḥ kṣatriyaḥ punar enāṃ dadāti
sa divo dhārāṃ dhayati prapīnām ||

9.16.4

yo 'punardāya brahmajāyāṃ
rājā talpe nipadyate |
duryoṇā asmā oṣadhīr
yāḥ kāś cābhi vipaśyati ||

9.16.5

viṣam aśnāty apāṃ
viṣam aśnāti vīrudhām |
yo brahmajāyāṃ na punar dadāti
tasmai devāḥ sudihaṃ digdham asyām ||

9.16.6

udyat patayo daśa
striyāḥ pūrve abrāhmaṇāḥ |
brahmā ced dhastam agrahīt
sa eva patir ekadhā ||

9.16.7

brāhmaṇa eva patir
na rājā nota vaiśyaḥ |
tat sūryaḥ prabruvann eti
pañcabhyo mānavebhyaḥ ||

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