Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 9.18
iṣur iva digdhā nṛpate
pṛdākūr iva gopate |
sā brāhmaṇasyeṣur digdhā
tayā vidhyati pīyakaḥ ||
tīkṣṇeṣavo brāhmaṇā hetimanto
yām asyanti śaravyāṃ na sā mṛṣā |
anuhāya tapasā manyunā cota
dūrād ava bhindanti te tayā ||
jihvā jyā bhavati kulmalaṃ vāṅ
nāḍīkā dantās tapasā sudigdhāḥ |
tebhir brahmā vidhyati devapīyūn
hṛdbalair dhanurbhir devajūtaiḥ ||
ye brāhmaṇaṃ hiṃsitāras tapasvinaṃ
manīṣiṇaṃ brahmacaryeṇa śrāntam |
avartimad bhavitā rāṣṭram eṣāṃ
tamasīva nihitaṃ nānu vettāḥ ||
ye sahasram arājann
āsan daśaśatā uta |
te brāhmaṇasya gāṃ jagdhvā
vaitahavyāḥ parābhavan ||
gaur eva tān hanyamānā
vaitahavyām̐ avātirat |
ye keśara prābandhāyāś
caramājām apeciran ||
atimātrā ajāyanta
nod iva divam aspṛśan |
bhṛguṃ hiṃsitvā māhīnā
asaṃbhavyaṃ parābhavan ||
ye bṛhatsāmānam āṅgirasam
ārpayan brāhmaṇaṃ janāḥ |
yetvas teṣām ubhayādann
avis tokāny āvayat ||
ye brāhmaṇaṃ pratyaṣṭhīvan
ye cāsmic chuklam īṣire |
asnas te madhye kulyāyāḥ
keśān khādanta āsate ||
aṣṭāpadī caturakṣī
catuḥśrotrā caturhanuḥ |
dvijihvā dviprāṇā bhūtvā
sā rāṣṭram ava dhūnute ||
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