Atharvaveda · Sūkta 5.19
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5.19.1
अतिमात्रमवर्धन्त नोदिव दिवमस्पृशन् ।
भृगुं हिंसित्वा सृञ्जया वैतहव्याः पराभवन् ॥ ५.१९.१ ॥
They grew beyond all measure, as if touching the sky; having harmed Bhṛgu, the Sṛñjayas and the Vaitahavyas were brought low.
5.19.2
ये बृहत्सामानमाङ्गिरसमार्पयन् ब्राह्मणं जनाः ।
पेत्वस्तेषामुभयादमविस्तोकान्यावयत् ॥ ५.१९.२ ॥
Those people who drove away the brahmin, the Āṅgirasa chanter of the Bṛhat-sāman—from both sides of them, may Petvu... keep their little ones apart.
5.19.3
ये ब्राह्मणं प्रत्यष्ठीवन् ये वास्मिञ्छुल्कमीषिरे ।
अस्नस्ते मध्ये कुल्यायाः केशान् खादन्त आसते ॥ ५.१९.३ ॥
Those who spat upon the brahmin, or who demanded a toll from him—bloodless, they sit in the middle of the channel, eating hair.
5.19.4
ब्रह्मगवी पच्यमाना यावत्साभि विजङ्गहे ।
तेजो राष्ट्रस्य निर्हन्ति न वीरो जायते वृषा ॥ ५.१९.४ ॥
While the brahmin's cow, being cooked, is hacked upon, she destroys the splendour of the realm; no hero, no potent bull of a man, is born there.
5.19.5
क्रूरमस्या आशसनं तृष्टं पिशितमस्यते ।
क्षीरं यदस्याः पीयते तद्वै पितृषु किल्बिषम् ॥ ५.१९.५ ॥
Her cruel slaughter, the greedy cutting of her flesh, and the drinking of her milk—these are indeed a sin against the ancestors.
5.19.6
उग्रो राजा मन्यमानो ब्राह्मणं यो जिघत्सति ।
परा तत्सिच्यते राष्ट्रं ब्राह्मणो यत्र जीयते ॥ ५.१९.६ ॥
A fierce king who, thinking himself mighty, wishes to harm the brahmin—that realm is drained away, there where the brahmin is overcome.
5.19.7
अष्टापदी चतुरक्षी चतुःश्रोत्रा चतुर्हनुः ।
द्व्यास्या द्विजिह्वा भूत्वा सा राष्ट्रमव धूनुते ब्रह्मज्यस्य ॥ ५.१९.७ ॥
Becoming eight-footed, four-eyed, four-eared, four-jawed, two-faced and two-tongued, she shakes down the realm of the one who wrongs a brahmin.
5.19.8
तद्वै राष्ट्रमा स्रवति नावं भिन्नामिवोदकम् ।
ब्रह्माणं यत्र हिंसन्ति तद्राष्ट्रं हन्ति दुछुना ॥ ५.१९.८ ॥
That realm drains away like water from a broken boat; where they harm a brahmin, misfortune strikes that realm down.
5.19.9
तं वृक्षा अप सेधन्ति छायां नो मोप गा इति ।
यो ब्राह्मणस्य सद्धनमभि नारद मन्यते ॥ ५.१९.९ ॥
The trees push him away, saying, 'Do not come near our shade'; O Nārada, the one who covets a brahmin's true wealth is treated thus.
5.19.10
विषमेतद्देवकृतं राजा वरुणोऽब्रवीत् ।
न ब्राह्मणस्य गां जग्ध्वा रास्त्रे जागार कश्चन ॥ ५.१९.१० ॥
King Varuṇa said, 'This is a poison made by the gods'; having eaten a brahmin's cow, no one stays awake in the realm.
5.19.11
नवैव ता नवतयो या भूमिर्व्यधूनुत ।
प्रजां हिंसित्वा ब्राह्मणीमसंभव्यं पराभवन् ॥ ५.१९.११ ॥
Those are the ninety-nine that the earth shook off; having harmed the people and attacked the brahmin woman — something unthinkable — they were defeated and ruined.
5.19.12
यां मृतायानुबध्नन्ति कूद्यं पदयोपनीम् ।
तद्वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा उपस्तरणमब्रुवन् ॥ ५.१९.१२ ॥
The shroud that they bring and tie on for the dead with their feet — that, the gods said, is the bed-spread of the one who wrongs a brahmin.
5.19.13
अश्रूणि कृपमानस्य यानि जीतस्य वावृतुः ।
तं वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा अपां भागमधारयन् ॥ ५.१९.१३ ॥
The tears of one lamenting for the living man, whichever turned back — those the gods assigned as a portion of the waters to that brahman-wronger.
5.19.14
येन मृतं स्नपयन्ति श्मश्रूणि येनोन्दते ।
तं वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा अपां भागमधारयन् ॥ ५.१९.१४ ॥
With which they bathe the dead man and with which they wet his beard — that brahman-wronger the gods assigned as a portion of the waters.
5.19.15
न वर्षं मैत्रावरुणं ब्रह्मज्यमभि वर्षति ।
नास्मै समितिः कल्पते न मित्रं नयते वशम् ॥ ५.१९.१५ ॥
The rain of Mitra and Varuṇa does not fall upon the brahman-wronger. No assembly is fit for him, and a friend does not bring him under control.