Atharva Veda · 145 of 724

HYMN VIII

A charm for the discomfiture and destruction of hostile priests 1. With fuel of Vikankata bring molten butter to the Gods.   O Agni, make them joyful here: let them all come unto my call. 2. O Indra, come unto my call, This will I do. So hear it thou.   Let these exertions for the sake of Indra guide my wish aright.   Therewith, O Jātavedas, Lord of Bodies! may we win us strength. 3. Whatever plot from yonder, O ye Gods, that godless man would    frame,   Let not the Gods come to his call, nor Agni bear his offering up.   Come, ye, come hither to my call. 4. Run, ye Fxertions, farther on By Indra's order smite and slay.   As a wolf worrieth a sheep, so let not him escape from you    while life remains. Stop fast his breath. 5. The Brāhman whom those yonder have appointed priest, for    injury,   He, Indra! is beneath thy feet. I cast him to the God of Death. 6. If they have issued forth, strongholds of Gods, and made their    shield of prayer,   Gaining protection for their lives, protection round about, make    all their instigation powerless. 7. Exertions which that man hath made, Exertions which he yet    will make   Turn them, O Indra, back again, O Vritra-slayer, back again on    him that they may kill that man. 8. As Indra, having seized him, set his foot upon Udvāchana,   Even so for all the coming years I cast those men beneath my    feet. 9. Here, Indra Vritra-slayer, in thy strength pierce thou their vital.    parts.   Here, even here, attack them, O Indra. Thine own dear friend    am I.   Indra, we closely cling to thee. May we be in thy favouring    grace.