Book 3: Hymn 6: Address to an amulet which is to secure the defeat of the wearer's enemies

1Masculine springs from masculine, Asvattha grows from Kha- dira, May it destroy mine enemies, who hate me and whom I detest. 2Crush down my foes, Asvattha! Rend, O Burster, those who storm and rage, With Indra, slayer of the fiends, with Mitra and with Varuna. 3As thou hast rent and torn apart, Asvattha! in the mighty sea, So rend asundar all those men who hate me and whom I detest. 4Thou who like some victorious bull displayest thy surpassing might, With thee, with thee, Asvattha! we would overcome our enemies. 5Nirriti bind them with the bonds of Death which never may be loosed. p. a72 Mine enemies, Asvattha! those who hate me and whom I detest. 6As thou, Asvastha!, mountest on the trees and overthrowest them, So do thou break my foeman's head asunder and o'erpower him. 7Let them drift downward like a boat torn from the rope that fastened it. There is no turning back for those whom He who Cleaves hath driven away. 8With mental power I drive them forth, drive them with intellect and charm. We banish and expel them with the branch of an Asvattha tree. Next: Hymn 7: A charm with an amulet of buck horn to drive away hereditary disease