Verse 17

Ganapati

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

इदमथर्वशीर्षमशिष्याय न देयम् । यो यदि मोहाद् दास्यति । स पापीयान् भवति ॥१७॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

इदम् अथर्व-शीर्षम् अशिष्याय न देयम् । यः यदि मोहात् दास्यति । सः पापीयान् भवति ।

IAST Transliteration

idam atharvaśīrṣam aśiṣyāya na deyam | yo yadi mohād dāsyati | sa pāpīyān bhavati ||17||

Translation

हे अथर्वशीर्ष अशिष्याला (अयोग्याला) देऊ नये. जो कोणी मोहाने ते देईल, तो अधिक पापी ठरतो॥१७॥

Academic Translation

This Atharvaśīrṣa is not to be given to a non-disciple. If someone, out of delusion, gives it (to such a one), he becomes more sinful.

Verse Context

• Adhikāra (eligibility) and guru-śiṣya paramparā; protection of sacred instruction
• Mahavakya: Indirect: emphasizes the traditional safeguards around transmitting liberating knowledge that culminates in mahāvākya instruction; not a direct mahāvākya linkage.
• Atharva
• Atharvaveda (Atharvaśīrṣa tradition; commonly transmitted in Śaunaka-associated Atharvanic corpus) Shakha
• Chandas: Prose (gadya)