Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.56
मा नो देवा अहिर् वधीत् सतोकान्त् सहपुरुषान् । सम्यतं न वि ष्परद् व्यात्तं न सं यमन् नमो देवजनेभ्यः ।
mā no devā ahir vadhīt satokānt sahapuruṣān | samyataṃ na vi ṣparad vyāttaṃ na saṃ yaman namo devajanebhyaḥ |
Let not the snake, O gods, slay us with our offspring, with our men (púruṣa); what is shut together may it not unclose; what is open may it not shut together: homage to the god-people.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
नमो ऽस्त्व् असिताय नमस् तिरश्चिराजये । स्वजाय बभ्रवे नमो नमो देवजनेभ्यः ॥२॥
namo 'stv asitāya namas tiraścirājaye | svajāya babhrave namo namo devajanebhyaḥ ||2||
Homage be to the black [snake], homage to the cross-lined, homage to the brown constrictor; homage to the god-people.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सं ते हन्मि दता दतः सम् उ ते हन्वा हनू । सं ते जिह्वया जिह्वां सम् व् आस्नाह आस्यम् ॥३॥
saṃ te hanmi datā dataḥ sam u te hanvā hanū | saṃ te jihvayā jihvāṃ sam v āsnāha āsyam ||3||
I smite thy teeth together with tooth, thy (two) jaws together with jaw, thy tongue together with tongue, thy mouth, O snake, together with mouth.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)