अत्रापि बह्वृचैर्गीतं शृणु मेऽसुरसत्तम । सत्यमोमिति यत् प्रोक्तं यन्नेत्याहानृतं हि तत् ॥ ३८ ॥
atrapi bahvrcair gitam srnu me ’sura-sattama satyam om iti yat proktam yan nety ahanrtam hi tat
- atra api
- in this regard also (in deciding what is truth and what is not truth)
- bahu-rcaih
- by the sruti-mantras known as Bahvrca-sruti, which are evidence from the Vedas
- gitam
- what has been spoken
- srnu
- just hear
- me
- from me
- asura-sattama
- O best of the asuras
- satyam
- the truth is
- om iti
- preceded by the word om
- yat
- that which
- proktam
- has been spoken
- yat
- that which is
- na
- not preceded by om
- iti
- thus
- aha
- it is said
- anrtam
- untruth
- hi
- indeed
- tat
- that
One might argue that since you have already promised, how can you refuse? O best of the demons, just take from me the evidence of the Bahvrca-sruti, which says that a promise is truthful preceded by the word om and untruthful if not.