Atharvavedaparishishta 3.3
English (machine translation) 3.3
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- 3.3.8 — 2 parts
3.3.1
With one of broken voice, breaking of the limbs arises; with a repulsive guru, they speak of discord; / with one having deformed eyes or a fallen man, he destroys his sons; and with an Adhvaryu, his grandsons.
3.3.2
With a dark-eyed one, he should know loss of treasury; with a red-eyed one, destruction of mounts; / a yellowish-eyed one would kill the ruler, while a squint-eyed one would destroy the kingdom.
3.3.3
For whatever ruler appoints a Ṛgvedic priest to the office of royal domestic priest, / he sinks along with him, like an elephant in deep mud.
3.3.4
For whatever ruler appoints an Adhvaryu to the office of royal domestic priest, / he grasps a stone for his own destruction, as though desiring to cross over water.
3.3.5
Slaughter, imprisonment, distress, and the destruction of treasury and mounts— / a chanter of the Sāmaveda, even if endowed with austerities, brings about these conditions for the lineage.
3.3.6
Therefore, the king should appoint as royal domestic priest one endowed with noble lineage and fine appearance, knowing the Bhṛgus and Aṅgirases, / belonging to the gotra of Aṅgiras or Vasiṣṭha.
3.3.7
In sacrifices, in kingdoms, in cities, in armies, and in the kings' own residences, / whatever portents arise of the three kinds, terrible in form, all those the knower of the Brahmaveda should pacify.
3.3.8
Therefore, the king should appoint a guru who possesses the secret of the Vedas, is unslackening in the fourfold ritual, / peaceful, self-controlled, having subdued his senses, and pleasant to look upon—pleasant to look upon.
3.3.8.p1
Thus ends the king's first consecration.
3.3.8.p2
(Supplement 4: The duties of the royal domestic priest)
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- Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa — Sanskrit