Atharvavedaparishishta 2.3
English (machine translation) 2.3
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2.3.1
The earthly ruler should give to the spiritual guide ten million [coins] as the choice-fee, / or half of a territory of the earth, or a third from a threefold division.
2.3.2
Thus according to the extent of the land he should assign a crore or a portion; / or the ruler of the earth should do that by which the spiritual guide may be completely satisfied.
2.3.3
Ominous afflictions from fate destroy it, and the god does not send rain, / [and] heroes are not born in that realm which has no royal priest.
2.3.4
The deities, the ancestors, and the twice-born do not accept an oblation / from that ruler of the earth in whose house there is no spiritual guide who knows the Atharvan.
2.3.5
One should appoint as spiritual guide a follower of the Pippalāda school, whose major and minor limbs are well proportioned, / who is endowed with learning, proper conduct, and virtue, who increases fortune, the realm, and health;
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- Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa — Sanskrit