सूत उवाच अथर्ववित्सुमन्तुश्च शिष्यमध्यापयत् स्वकाम् । संहितां सोऽपि पथ्याय वेददर्शाय चोक्तवान् ॥ १ ॥
sūta uvāca atharva-vit sumantuś ca śiṣyam adhyāpayat svakām saṁhitāṁ so ’pi pathyāya vedadarśāya coktavān
- sūtaḥ uvāca
- Sūta Gosvāmī said
- atharva-vit
- the expert knower of the Atharva Veda
- sumantuḥ
- Sumantu
- ca
- and
- śiṣyam
- to his disciple
- adhyāpayat
- instructed
- svakām
- his own
- saṁhitām
- collection
- saḥ
- he, the disciple of Sumantu
- api
- also
- pathyāya
- to Pathya
- vedadarśāya
- to Vedadarśa
- ca
- and
- uktavān
- spoke
Sūta Gosvāmī said: Sumantu Ṛṣi, the authority on the Atharva Veda, taught his saṁhitā to his disciple Kabandha, who in turn spoke it to Pathya and Vedadarśa.