{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03006.htm","path":"hin/av/av03006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03006.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Masculine springs from masculine, Asvattha grows from Kha-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dira,\n \u00a0\u00a0May it destroy mine enemies, who hate me and whom I detest.\n 2Crush down my foes, Asvattha! Rend, O Burster, those who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0storm and rage,\n \u00a0\u00a0With Indra, slayer of the fiends, with Mitra and with Varuna.\n 3As thou hast rent and torn apart, Asvattha! in the mighty sea,\n \u00a0\u00a0So rend asundar all those men who hate me and whom I detest.\n 4Thou who like some victorious bull displayest thy surpassing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0might,\n \u00a0\u00a0With thee, with thee, Asvattha! we would overcome our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemies.\n 5Nirriti bind them with the bonds of Death which never may be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0loosed. p. a72\n \u00a0\u00a0Mine enemies, Asvattha! those who hate me and whom I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0detest.\n 6As thou, Asvastha!, mountest on the trees and overthrowest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them,\n \u00a0\u00a0So do thou break my foeman's head asunder and o'erpower\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him.\n 7Let them drift downward like a boat torn from the rope that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fastened it.\n \u00a0\u00a0There is no turning back for those whom He who Cleaves hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0driven away.\n 8With mental power I drive them forth, drive them with intellect\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and charm.\n \u00a0\u00a0We banish and expel them with the branch of an Asvattha tree.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 6: Address to an amulet which is to secure the defeat of the wearer's enemies","type":"page"}