Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·12·12.4·12.4.25
अनपत्यम् अल्पपशुं वशा कृणोति पूरुषम् । ब्राह्मणैश् च याचिताम् अथैनां निप्रियायते ॥२५॥
anapatyam alpapaśuṃ vaśā kṛṇoti pūruṣam | brāhmaṇaiś ca yācitām athaināṃ nipriyāyate ||25||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The cow makes a man (pū́ruṣa) destitute of descendants, poor in cattle, if, when she is asked for by the Brahmans, then he keeps her to himself.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 12.4.25, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/12.4.25), after GRETIL, Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka),….
GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/avs___u.htm — Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka), trasliterazione a cura di Chatia Orlandi, Pisa 1991, collated with the ed. R. Roth and WḌ. Whitney: Atharva Veda Sanhita, Berlin 1856. Input by Vladimir Petr and Pet | English: William Dwight Whitney (1905), attached per hymn where the verse count and the names agree.
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