{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06134.htm","path":"hin/av/av06134.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06134.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1This Thunderbolt shall take its fill of Order, scare life away and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0overthrow the kingdom.\n \u00a0\u00a0Tear necks in pieces. rend napes asunder, even as the Lord of\n \u00a0\u00a0Might the neck of Vritra.\n 2Down, down beneath the conquerors, let him not rise, concealed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in earth, but lie down-smitten with the bolt.\n 3Seek out the fierce oppressor, yea, strike only the oppressor\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dead. p. a265\n \u00a0\u00a0Down on the fierce oppressor's head strike at full length, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Thunderbolt!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 134: A priest's prayer for power to punish wrong-doers","type":"page"}