Book 6: Hymn 13: Homage to death

1Worship to weapons of the Gods! worship to weapons of the Kings! Then worship to the people's arms! worship, O Death, be paid to thee! 2Let worship be to thy defence and to thine accusation paid. Death! be this worship paid to thy good-will and thy malevo- lence! 3Worship to thy physicians, to thy sorcerers be worship paid! Death! let this reverence be done unto thy Brāhmans and thy roots.