Atharvaveda · Sūkta 15.13

15.13.1

तद्यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्य एकां रात्रिमतिथिर्गृहे वसति ॥ १५.१३.१ ॥

Whoever's house a vrātya who knows thus dwells as a guest for one night—

ये पृथिव्यां पुण्या लोकास्तान् एव तेनाव रुन्धे ॥१ ॥ १५.१३.२ ॥

The meritorious worlds that are on the earth—those very ones he obtains thereby.

तद्यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्यो द्वितीयां रात्रिमतिथिर्गृहे वसति ॥ १५.१३.३ ॥

Whoever's house a vrātya who knows thus dwells as a guest for a second night—

येऽन्तरिक्षे पुण्या लोकास्तान् एव तेनाव रुन्धे ॥२ ॥ १५.१३.४ ॥

The meritorious worlds that are in the atmosphere—those very ones he obtains thereby.

तद्यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्यस्तृतीयां रात्रिमतिथिर्गृहे वसति ॥ १५.१३.५ ॥

Whoever's house a vrātya who knows thus dwells as a guest for a third night—

ये दिवि पुण्या लोकास्तान् एव तेनाव रुन्धे ॥३ ॥ १५.१३.६ ॥

The meritorious worlds that are in heaven—those very ones he obtains thereby.

तद्यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्यश्चतुर्थीं रात्रिमतिथिर्गृहे वसति ॥ १५.१३.७ ॥

Then, whose house a vrātya who knows thus dwells in as a guest for the fourth night.

ये पुण्यानां पुण्या लोकास्तान् एव तेनाव रुन्धे ॥४ ॥ १५.१३.८ ॥

Those meritorious worlds which are of the meritorious, those very worlds he obtains by that.

तद्यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्योऽपरिमिता रात्रीरतिथिर्गृहे वसति ॥ १५.१३.९ ॥

Then, whose house a vrātya who knows thus dwells in as a guest for countless nights.

य एवापरिमिताः पुण्या लोकास्तान् एव तेनाव रुन्धे ॥५ ॥ १५.१३.१० ॥

Those countless meritorious worlds, those very worlds he obtains by that.

अथ यस्याव्रात्यो व्रात्यब्रुवो नामबिभ्रत्यतिथिर्गृहान् आगछेत्॥६ ॥ १५.१३.११ ॥

Now, if a non-vrātya, one who speaks of the vrātya and bears the name vrātya, comes as a guest to someone's houses.

कर्षेदेनं न चैनं कर्षेत्॥७ ॥ १५.१३.१२ ॥

Let one drag him down, and let one not drag him down.

अस्यै देवताया उदकं याचामीमां देवतां वासय इमामिमां देवतां परि वेवेष्मी परि वेविष्यात् ॥ १५.१३.१३ ॥

For this deity I ask for water. Cause this deity to dwell here. I wish to encircle this deity; let it encircle.

तस्यामेवास्य तद्देवतायां हुतं भवति य एवं वेद ॥९ ॥ १५.१३.१४ ॥

In that very deity his offering is made, for he who knows thus.