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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.134

अयं वज्रस् तर्पयताम् ऋतस्यावास्य राष्ट्रम् अप हन्तु जीवितम् । शृणातु ग्रीवाः प्र शृणातूष्णिहा वृत्रस्येव शचीपतिः ॥१॥

ayaṃ vajras tarpayatām ṛtasyāvāsya rāṣṭram apa hantu jīvitam | śṛṇātu grīvāḥ pra śṛṇātūṣṇihā vṛtrasyeva śacīpatiḥ ||1||

Let this thunderbolt gratify itself with right (? ṛtásya), let it smite down his kingdom, away his life; let it crush [his] neck, crush up his nape, as Cachīpati of Vritra.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

अधरोऽधर उत्तरेभ्यो गूढः पृथिव्या मोत् सृपत् । वज्रेणावहतः शयाम् ॥२॥

adharo'dhara uttarebhyo gūḍhaḥ pṛthivyā mot sṛpat | vajreṇāvahataḥ śayām ||2||

Beneath, beneath them that are above, hidden, may he not creep out of the earth; let him lie smitten down by the thunderbolt.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यो जिनाति तम् अन्विछ यो जिनाति तम् इज् जहि । जिनतो वज्र त्वं सीमन्तम् अन्वञ्चम् अनु पातय ॥३॥

yo jināti tam anvicha yo jināti tam ij jahi | jinato vajra tvaṃ sīmantam anvañcam anu pātaya ||3||

Whoever scathes, him seek thou after; whoever scathes, him smite; the crown of the scather, O thunderbolt, do thou cause to fall following after.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)