Atharva Veda · 19 of 724

HYMN XIX

A prayer for protection from arrows and for the punishment of enemies 1. Let not the piercers find us, nor let those who wound discover    us.   O Indra, make the arrows fall, turned, far from us, to every    side. 2. Turned from us let the arrows fall, those shot and those that will    be shot.   Shafts of the Gods and shafts of men, strike and transfix mine    enemies: 3. Whoever treateth us as foes, be he our own or strange to us, a    kinsman or a foreigner,   May Rudra with his arrows pierce and slay these enemies of    mine. 4. The rival and non-rival, he who in his hatred curses us   May all the deities injure him! My nearest, closest mail is    prayer.