Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.16
ये ऽमावास्यां रात्रिम् उदस्थुर् व्राजम् अत्त्रिणः । अग्निस् तुरीयो यातुहा सो अस्मभ्यम् अधि ब्रवत् ॥१॥
ye 'māvāsyāṃ rātrim udasthur vrājam attriṇaḥ | agnis turīyo yātuhā so asmabhyam adhi bravat ||1||
What devourers, on the night of new moon, have arisen troop-wise (?)—the fourth Agni is the demon-slayer; he shall bless us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सीसायाध्य् आह वरुणः सीसायाग्निर् उपावति । सीसं म इन्द्रः प्रायछत् तद् अङ्ग यातुचातनम् ॥२॥
sīsāyādhy āha varuṇaḥ sīsāyāgnir upāvati | sīsaṃ ma indraḥ prāyachat tad aṅga yātucātanam ||2||
The lead Varuṇa blesses; the lead Agni favors; Indra bestowed on me the lead; it, surely, is a dispeller of familiar demons.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इदं विष्कन्धं सहत इदं बाधते अत्त्रिणः । अनेन विश्वा ससहे या जातानि पिशाच्याः ॥३॥
idaṃ viṣkandhaṃ sahata idaṃ bādhate attriṇaḥ | anena viśvā sasahe yā jātāni piśācyāḥ ||3||
This overpowers the víṣkandha; this drives off (bādh) the devourers; with this I overpower all the races (jātá) that are the piçācī́'s.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यदि नो गां हंसि यद्य् अश्वं यदि पूरुषम् । तं त्वा सीसेन विध्यामो यथा नो ऽसो अवीरहा ॥४॥
yadi no gāṃ haṃsi yady aśvaṃ yadi pūruṣam | taṃ tvā sīsena vidhyāmo yathā no 'so avīrahā ||4||
If our cow thou slayest, if [our] horse, if [our] man (púruṣa), we pierce thee there with lead, that thou be no slayer of our heroes.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)