{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06135.htm","path":"hin/av/av06135.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06135.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Whate'er I eat I turn to strength, and thus I grasp the Thunder-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bolt,\n \u00a0\u00a0Rending the shoulders of that man as Indra shattered Vritra's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0neck.\n 2I drink together what I drink, even as the sea that swallows all.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drinking the life-breath of that man, we drink that man and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0swallow him.\n 3Whate'er I eat I swallow up, even as the sea that swallows all.\n \u00a0\u00a0Swallowing that man's vital breath, we swallow him completely\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0up.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 135: A priest's fulmination against an enemy","type":"page"}