Atharvaveda · Sūkta 5.18
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5.18.1
नैतां ते देवा अददुस्तुभ्यं नृपते अत्तवे ।
मा ब्राह्मणस्य राजन्य गां जिघत्सो अनाद्याम् ॥ ५.१८.१ ॥
The gods did not give this to you, O king, to eat. O kṣatriya, do not seek to devour the brahmin's cow; it is not fit to be eaten.
5.18.2
अक्षद्रुग्धो राजन्यः पाप आत्मपराजितः ।
स ब्राह्मणस्य गामद्यादद्य जीवानि मा श्वः ॥ ५.१८.२ ॥
Let the kṣatriya, cheated by dice, wicked and defeated by himself, eat the brahmin's cow today; may I not live tomorrow.
5.18.3
आविष्टिताघविषा पृदाकूरिव चर्मणा ।
सा ब्राह्मणस्य राजन्य तृष्टैषा गौरनाद्या ॥ ५.१८.३ ॥
Like a venomous pṛdākū wrapped in its skin, she is enclosed in evil poison. O kṣatriya, this cow of the brahmin is fierce; she is not fit to be eaten.
5.18.4
निर्वै क्षत्रं नयति हन्ति वर्चोऽग्निरिवारब्धो वि दुनोति सर्वम् ।
यो ब्राह्मणं मन्यते अन्नमेव स विषस्य पिबति तैमातस्य ॥ ५.१८.४ ॥
Indeed he drives away royal power and slays splendour; like a kindled fire he burns up everything apart. He who regards the brahmin as mere food drinks the poison taimāta.
5.18.5
य एनं हन्ति मृदुं मन्यमानो देवपीयुर्धनकामो न चित्तात् ।
सं तस्येन्द्रो हृदयेऽग्निमिन्धे उभे एनं द्विष्टो नभसी चरन्तम् ॥ ५.१८.५ ॥
He who strikes him, thinking him gentle—hostile to the gods, desiring wealth—does not escape even from his duty. Indra kindles fire in his heart; both heaven and mid-air, as he moves through them, hate him.
5.18.6
न ब्राह्मणो हिंसितव्योऽग्निः प्रियतनोरिव ।
सोमो ह्यस्य दायाद इन्द्रो अस्याभिशस्तिपाः ॥ ५.१८.६ ॥
A brahmin must not be harmed; he is like fire to one's dear body. Soma indeed is his heir, and Indra is the protector of him against curses.
5.18.7
शतापाष्ठां नि गिरति तां न शक्नोति निःखिदम् ।
अन्नं यो ब्रह्मणां मल्वः स्वाद्वद्मीति मन्यते ॥ ५.१८.७ ॥
Like one who swallows a hundred-edged sharp weapon and cannot vomit it up, the glutton who eats the brahmins' food and thinks, "I am eating something sweet."
5.18.8
जिह्वा ज्या भवति कुल्मलं वाङ्नाडीका दन्तास्तपसाभिदिग्धाः ।
तेभिर्ब्रह्मा विध्यति देवपीयून् हृद्बलैर्धनुर्भिर्देवजूतैः ॥ ५.१८.८ ॥
The tongue is the bowstring, speech the arrow-shaft, the teeth smeared with ascetic heat. With these the brahmin pierces those who hate the gods, with bows of heart-strength, impelled by the gods.
5.18.9
तीक्ष्णेषवो ब्राह्मणा हेतिमन्तो यामस्यन्ति शरव्यां न सा मृषा ।
अनुहाय तपसा मन्युना चोत दूरादव भिन्दन्त्येनम् ॥ ५.१८.९ ॥
The brahmins, with sharp arrows and armed, shoot at a target, and it is not in vain. Driven by ascetic heat and wrath, they split him apart from afar.
5.18.10
ये सहस्रमराजन्न् आसन् दशशता उत ।
ते ब्राह्मणस्य गां जग्ध्वा वैतहव्याः पराभवन् ॥ ५.१८.१० ॥
Those who were a thousand and ten hundreds, without a king, ate the brahmin's cow; the Vaitahavyas were defeated.
5.18.11
गौरेव तान् हन्यमाना वैतहव्यामवातिरत् ।
ये केसरप्राबन्धायाश्चरमाजामपेचिरन् ॥ ५.१८.११ ॥
The cow herself, striking them, passed beyond the Vaitahavya woman, those who cooked the last she-goat of the hair-bound one.
5.18.12
एकशतं ता जनता या भूमिर्व्यधूनुत ।
प्रजां हिंसित्वा ब्राह्मणीमसंभव्यं पराभवन् ॥ ५.१८.१२ ॥
The hundred peoples who shook the earth, having harmed the offspring of the brahmin cow, were destroyed beyond endurance.
5.18.13
देवपीयुश्चरति मर्त्येषु गरगीर्णो भवत्यस्थिभूयान् ।
यो ब्राह्मणं देवबन्धुं हिनस्ति न स पितृयाणमप्येति लोकम् ॥ ५.१८.१३ ॥
The enemy of the gods wanders among mortals; having swallowed poison, he becomes nothing but bones. He who harms a brahmin, kinsman of the gods, does not reach the world of the path of the fathers.
5.18.14
अग्निर्वै नः पदवायः सोमो दायाद उच्यते ।
हन्ताभिशस्तेन्द्रस्तथा तद्वेधसो विदुः ॥ ५.१८.१४ ॥
Agni is indeed our guardian of the footstep; Soma is called the heir. Indra is the slayer of the accused; the wise know it thus.
5.18.15
इषुरिव दिग्धा नृपते पृदाकूरिव गोपते ।
सा ब्राह्मणस्येषुर्घोरा तया विध्यति पीयतः ॥ ५.१८.१५ ॥
Like an arrow smeared with poison, O lord of men, and like a viper, O lord of cattle — such is the terrible arrow of the brahmin; with it he pierces the wicked one.