Atharvaveda · Sūkta 4.19

4.19.1

उतो अस्यबन्धुकृदुतो असि नु जामिकृत् ।
उतो कृत्याकृतः प्रजां नदमिवा छिन्धि वार्षिकम् ॥ ४.१९.१ ॥

You make his kinsmen kinless, and indeed you make him kinless. And the offspring of the sorcerer, like a reed, the rain-grown plant, cut off.

ब्राह्मणेन पर्युक्तासि कण्वेन नार्षदेन ।
सेनेवैषि त्विषीमती न तत्र भयमस्ति यत्र प्राप्नोष्योषधे ॥ ४.१९.२ ॥

By the Brahmin you are bound, by Kaṇva and by Nārṣada. Like an army, radiant, you go; O herb, where you reach there is no fear.

अग्रमेष्योषधीनां ज्योतिषेवाभिदीपयन् ।
उत त्रातासि पाकस्याथो हन्तासि रक्षसः ॥ ४.१९.३ ॥

Foremost among herbs you go, illuminating as with light. And you are the protector of the simple one, and you are the slayer of demons.

यददो देवा असुरांस्त्वयाग्रे निरकुर्वत ।
ततस्त्वमध्योषधेऽपामार्गो अजायथाः ॥ ४.१९.४ ॥

When the gods first drove out the asuras by means of you, then, O herb, you were born as Apāmārga.

विभिन्दती शतशाखा विभिन्दन् नाम ते पिता ।
प्रत्यग्वि भिन्धि त्वं तं यो अस्मामभिदासति ॥ ४.१९.५ ॥

Splitting, hundred-branched, splitting is your father's name. Turned back, split him, you, who would harm us.

असद्भूम्याः समभवत्तद्यामेति महद्व्यचः ।
तद्वै ततो विधूपायत्प्रत्यक्कर्तारमृच्छतु ॥ ४.१९.६ ॥

From the earth 'non-being' arose; that is the great expanse named 'Yāmā.' That, from there, smoking out, turned back, let it reach the doer.

प्रत्यङ्हि संबभूविथ प्रतीचीनफलस्त्वम् ।
सर्वान् मच्छपथामधि वरीयो यावया वधम् ॥ ४.१९.७ ॥

You have turned backward, and your fruit is turned backward. Drive away from me all the oaths sworn against me, and the blow of death, farther off.

शतेन मा परि पाहि सहस्रेणाभि रक्षा मा ।
इन्द्रस्ते वीरुधां पत उग्र ओज्मानमा दधत् ॥ ४.१९.८ ॥

Protect me all around with a hundred, guard me on every side with a thousand. May Indra, lord of the plants, the mighty one, place your vigour in me.