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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.66

अयोजाला असुरा मायिनो ऽयस्मयैः पाशैर् अङ्किनो ये चरन्ति । तांस् ते रन्धयामि हरसा जातवेदः सहस्रऋष्टिः सपत्नान् प्रमृणन् पाहि वज्रः ॥१॥

ayojālā asurā māyino 'yasmayaiḥ pāśair aṅkino ye caranti | tāṃs te randhayāmi harasā jātavedaḥ sahasraṛṣṭiḥ sapatnān pramṛṇan pāhi vajraḥ ||1||

The trickish Asuras that go about, having metal nets, hooking with fetters of metal, them I make subject to thee with flame, O Jātavedas; go thou, a thousand-barbed thunderbolt, slaughtering our rivals.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)