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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.135

यद् अश्नामि बलं कुर्व इत्थं वज्रम् आ ददे । स्कन्धान् अमुष्य शातयन् वृत्रस्येव शचीपतिः ॥१॥

yad aśnāmi balaṃ kurva itthaṃ vajram ā dade | skandhān amuṣya śātayan vṛtrasyeva śacīpatiḥ ||1||

When (yát) I eat, I make strength; thus do I take the thunderbolt, cutting to pieces (çat) the shoulders of him yonder, as Cachīpati of Vritra.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यत् पिबामि सं पिबामि समुद्र इव संपिबः । प्राणान् अमुष्य संपाय सं पिबामो अमुं वयम् ॥२॥

yat pibāmi saṃ pibāmi samudra iva saṃpibaḥ | prāṇān amuṣya saṃpāya saṃ pibāmo amuṃ vayam ||2||

When I drink, I drink up, an up-drinker like the ocean; drinking up the breath of him yonder, we drink him up.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यद् गिरामि सं गिरामि समुद्र इव संगिरः । प्राणान् अमुष्य संगीर्य सं गिरामो अमुम् वयम् ॥३॥

yad girāmi saṃ girāmi samudra iva saṃgiraḥ | prāṇān amuṣya saṃgīrya saṃ girāmo amum vayam ||3||

When I swallow, I swallow up, a swallower-up like the ocean; swallowing up the breath of him yonder, we swallow him up.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)