Atharvaveda · Sūkta 12.9

12.9.39

तस्या आहननं कृत्या मेनिराशसनं वलग ऊबध्यम् ॥ १२.९.३९ ॥

Her striking, the destructive rite, the mace, the cutting, the sharp one, the bound one.

अस्वगता परिह्णुता ॥ १२.९.४० ॥

Horseless, crooked, and deceived.

अग्निः क्रव्याद्भूत्वा ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यं प्रविश्यात्ति ॥ १२.९.४१ ॥

Fire, having become a flesh-eater, enters the enemy of the Brahmin and devours him, the Brahmin-cow does so.

सर्वास्याङ्गा पर्वा मूलानि वृश्चति ॥ १२.९.४२ ॥

She cuts off all his limbs, joints, and roots.

छिनत्त्यस्य पितृबन्धु परा भावयति मातृबन्धु ॥ १२.९.४३ ॥

She severs his paternal kin and drives away his maternal kin.

विवाहां ज्ञातीन्त्सर्वान् अपि क्षापयति ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यस्य क्षत्रियेणापुनर्दीयमाना ॥ १२.९.४४ ॥

She also destroys all marriages and kinsmen; the Brahmin-cow, not to be returned again by a kṣatriya, to the enemy of the Brahmin.

अवास्तुमेनमस्वगमप्रजसं करोत्यपरापरणो भवति क्षीयते ॥ १२.९.४५ ॥

He makes him homeless, without cattle, without offspring; he becomes unprotected and wastes away.

य एवं विदुषो ब्राह्मणस्य क्षत्रियो गामादत्ते ॥ १२.९.४६ ॥

The kṣatriya who takes the cow of a brahmin who knows this thus —