Atharvaveda 8.4

O Indra-and-Soma, burn the demon, oppress (ubj) [him]; put (arpay-) down, ye two bulls, them that thrive in darkness; crush away, scorch down the fools (acít); slay, push, pin (çā) down the devourers.

O Indra-and-Soma, against ⌊abhí⌋ the evil-plotter, the evil, let heat boil all up ⌊sam-yas⌋ like a fiery pot; assign unavoidable hate unto the brahman-hating, flesh-eating kimīdín of terrible aspect.

O Indra-and-Soma, pierce ye the evil-doers within their hiding-place (vavrá), in untenable darkness, whence there shall not come up again any one soever of them; be that your furious might unto overpowering.

O Indra-and-Soma, cause to roll (vṛt) from the sky the deadly weapon, from the earth also, a shattering for the evil-plotter; shape out from the mountains (párvata) the noisy one, wherewith ye burn down the increasing demon.

O Indra-and-Soma, cause [it] to roll forth from the sky; with fireheated, stone-smiting, unaging heat-weapons do ye pierce the devourers in the abyss; let them go to silence.

O Indra-and-Soma, be there about you on all sides this prayer (matí), as a girth [about] two vigorous (vājín) horses, the invocation (hótrā) that I send forth to you with wisdom; these acts of worship (bráhman) quicken ye like two lords of men.

Remember ye with [your] rapid courses; smite the haters, the destructive demoniacs; O Indra-and-Soma, let there not be ease (sugá) for the evil-doer, the hater that at any time vexes me.

Whoever reviles with untrue speeches me walking with simple mind—like waters grasped with the fist, let the speaker of what is not be [himself] non-existent, O Indra.

They who distract (vi-hṛ) with [their] courses him of simple intent, or who spoil at their will (svadhā́bhis) what is excellent—let Soma either deliver them up to the serpent, or let him set them in the lap of perdition.

Whoever, O Agni, tries to harm our taste of drink, of horses, of kine, whoever of our bodies—let the enemy, the thief, the theft-committer, go to want (dabhrá); let him be degraded with self and with posterity.

Be he far away, with self and with posterity, be he beneath all the three earths, let his glory dry up, ye gods, who by day and who by night tries to harm me.

It is easy of understanding for a knowing man (jána) [that] true and untrue words (vácas) are at variance; of them what is true, whichever is more right, that Soma verily favors; he smites the untrue.

Soma by no means furthers the wicked [man], nor the kshatríya who maintains [anything] falsely; he smites the demon; he smites the speaker of untruth; both lie within reach of Indra.

If I am one of false gods, or if I put upon (? api-ūh) the gods what is vain, O Agni—why art thou angry with us, O Jātavedas? let them of hateful speech obtain (sac) misery of thee.

May I die today if I am a sorcerer, or if I have burnt (tap) a man's lifetime; then let him be divided from ten heroes who vainly says to me "thou sorcerer."

Whoever to me that am no sorcerer (áyātu) says "thou sorcerer," or whatever demoniac says "I am pure (çúci)"—let Indra smite him with a great deadly weapon; may he fall lowest of every creature.

She who goes forth in the night like an owl (?), hateful, hiding herself away—may she fall down into an endless hole (vavrá); let the [pressing-] stones smite the demoniacs with [their] noises.

Scatter yourselves, O Maruts, among the people (vikṣú); seek, seize, crush (sam-piṣ) the demoniacs, who, becoming birds, fly in the nights, or who have put defilements (rípas) on the heavenly sacrifice.

Cause the stone to roll forth from the sky, O Indra; [it,] sharpened by Soma, do thou wholly sharpen, O liberal one; from before, from away, from below, from above, do thou smite upon the demoniacs with a mountain.

Here fly these dog-sorcerers (çváyātu); Indra the unharmable they the harm-seeking seek to harm; the mighty one (çakrá) sharpens his deadly weapon for the treacherous ones (píçuna); now may he let fly (sṛj) the thunderbolt at the sorcerers (yātumánt).

Indra was the crusher-away of the familiar demons (yātú), of the oblation-disturbers, of them who strive to win upon [it]; let the mighty one (çakrá) attack them that are demoniacs as an ax the woods, splitting [them] like vessels.

The owl-sorcerer, the owlet-(?)sorcerer smite thou, the dog-sorcerer and the cuckoo-sorcerer, the eagle-(? suparṇá)sorcerer and the vulture-sorcerer—do thou destroy (pra-mṛṇ) the demon, O Indra, as if with a mill-stone.

Let not the sorcerous demon reach us; let the kimīdíns that are paired fade away; let the earth protect us from earthly distress, let the atmosphere protect us from heavenly.

O Indra, smite the man sorcerer, likewise the woman ⌊who is⌋ prevailing with magic (māyā́); let the neckless false-worshipers vanish (? ṛd); let them not see the sun moving upward.

Look thou on; look abroad; O Soma, Indra also, watch ye; hurl ye the deadly weapon at the demons, the thunderbolt at the sorcerers (yātumánt).