Yajur Sama Atharvan Vedas

ATHARVA VEDA
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VI, 39. Prayer for glory (yasas).
1. The oblation that yields glory, sped on by Indra, of thousandfold strength, well offered, prepared
with might, shall prosper! Cause me, that offers the oblation, to continue long beholding (light), and
to rise to supremacy!
2. (That he may come) to us, let us honour with obeisance glory-owning Indra, the glorious one with
glory-yielding (oblations)! Do thou (the oblation) grant us sovereignty sped on by Indra; may we in
thy favour be glorious!
3. Glorious was Indra born, glorious Agni, glorious Soma. Glorious, of all beings the most glorious,
am I.
VIII, 8. Battle-charm.
1. May Indra churn (the enemy), he, the churner, Sakra (mighty), the hero, that pierces the forts, so
that we shall slay the armies of the enemies a thousandfold!
2. May the rotten rope, wafting itself against yonder army, turn it into a stench. When the enemies see
from afar our smoke and fire, fear shall they lay into their hearts!
3. Tear asunder those (enemies), O asvattha (ficus religiosa), devour (khâda) them, O! khadira (acacia
catechu) in lively style! Like the tâgadbhanga (ricinus communis) they shall be broken (bhagyantâm),
may the vadhaka (a certain kind of tree) slay them with his weapons (vadhaih)!
4. May the knotty âhva-plant put knots upon yonder (enemies), may the vadhaka slay them with his
weapons! Bound up in (our) great trap-net, they shall quickly be broken as an arrow-reed!
5. The atmosphere was the net, the great regions (of space) the (supporting) poles of the net: with
these Sakra (mighty Indra) did surround and scatter the army of the Dasyus.
6. Great, forsooth, is the net of great Sakra, who is rich in steeds: with it infold thou all the enemies,
so that not one of them shall be released!
7. Great is the net of thee, great Indra, hero, that art equal to a thousand, and hast hundredfold might.
With that (net) Sakra slew a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million foes, having
surrounded them with (his) army.
8. This great world was the net of great Sakra: with this net of Indra I infold all those (enemies)
yonder in darkness,
9. With great dejection, failure, and irrefragable misfortune; with fatigue, lassitude, and confusion, do
I surround all those (enemies) yonder.
10. To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil
messengers of death do I lead them captive.
11. Guide ye those (foes), ye messengers of death; ye messengers of Yama, infold them! Let more
than thousands be slain; may the club of Bhava crush them!
12. The Sâdhyas (blessed) go holding up with might one support of the net, the Rudras another, the
Vasus another, (Still) another is upheld by the Âdityas.
13. All the gods shall go pressing from above with might; the Angiras shall go on the middle (of the
net), slaying the mighty army!
14. The trees, and (growths) that are like trees, the plants and the herbs as well; two-footed and fourfooted
creatures do I impel, that they shall slay yonder army!
15. The Gandharvas and Apsaras, the serpents and the gods, holy men and (deceased) Fathers, the
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