{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av098.htm","path":"hin/av/av098.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av098.htm","text":"1. A male has sprung from a male, the asvattha (ficus religiosa) from the khadira (acacia catechu). May this slay my enemies, those whom I hate and those who hate me!\n 2. Crush the enemies, as they rush on, O asvattha, 'displacer,' allied with Indra, the slayer of Vritra, (allied) with Mitra and Varuxa!\n 3. As thou didst break forth, O asvattha, into the great flood (of the air), thus do thou break up all those whom I hate and those who hate me!\n 4. Thou that goest conquering as a conquering bull, with thee here, O asvattha, may we conquer our rivals!\n 5. May Nirriti (the goddess of destruction), O asvattha, bind in the toils of death that cannot be loosened those enemies of mine whom I hate and who hate me!\n 6. As thou climbest up the trees, O asvattha, and renderest them subordinate, thus do thou split in two the head of iny enemy, and overcome him!\n 7. They (the enemies) shall float down like a ship cut loose from its moorings! There is no returning again for those that have been driven out by the 'displacer.'\n 8. I drive them out with my mind, drive them out with my thought, and also with my incantation. We drive them out with a branch of the asvattha-tree.","title":"Atharva Veda: III. Imprecations Against Demons, Sorcerers, and Enemies (\u00c2bhik\u00e2rik\u00e2ni and Krity\u00e2pratiharan\u00e2ni): III, 6. The asvattha-tree as a destroyer of enemies","type":"page"}