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Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 9.17

9.17.1

naitāṃ te devā adadus
tubhyaṃ nṛpate attave |
mā brāhmaṇasya rājanya
gāṃ jighatso anādyām ||

9.17.2

akṣadrugdho rājanyaḥ
pāpa ātmaparājitaḥ |
sa brāhmaṇasya gām adyād
adya jīvāni mā śvaḥ ||

9.17.3

nir vai kṣatraṃ nayati hanti varco
'gnir ivārabdhaḥ pra dunoti rāṣṭram |
yo brāhmaṇaṃ devabandhuṃ hinasti
na sa pitṝṇām apy eti lokam ||

9.17.4

devapīyuś carati martyeṣu
garagīrṇo bhavaty asthibhūyān |
yo brāhmaṇaṃ manyate annam eva
sa viṣasya pibati taimātasya ||

9.17.5

viṣaṃ sa pibati taimātaṃ
paśyann agniṃ pra sīdati |
yo brāhmaṇasya sad dhanam
abhi nārada manyate ||

9.17.6

śatāpāṣṭhāṃ ni girati
tāṃ na śaknoti niṣkhidam |
annaṃ yo brahmaṇāṃ malvaḥ
svādv admīti manyate ||

9.17.7

ya enāṃ hanti mṛdu manyamāno
devapīyur dhanakāmo na cittāt |
saṃ tasyendro hṛdaye agnim indha
ubhe enaṃ dyuṣṭo nabhasī carantam ||

9.17.8

na brāhmaṇo hiṃsitavā
agneḥ priyatamā tanūḥ |
somo hy asya dāyāda
indro asyābhiśastipāḥ ||

9.17.9

agnir vai naḥ padavāyaḥ
somo dāyāda ucyate |
jetā abhiśastendras
tat satyaṃ devasaṃhitam ||

9.17.10

āviṣṭitāghaviṣā
pṛdākūr iva carmaṇā |
sā brāhmaṇasya rājanya
tṛṣṭaiṣā gaur anādyā ||

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