A Charm Against Tigers, Wolves, Thieves And Other Noxious Creatures
and the wolf.
Down, verily, the rivers flow, down-goeth the celestial Tree,.
down let our foemen bend and bow.
2. On distant pathway go the wolf, on pathway most remote the
thief!
On a far road speed forth the rope with teeth, and the malicious
man!
3. We crush and rend to pieces both thine eyes, O Tiger, and thy
jaws and all the twenty claws we break.
4. We break and rend the tiger first of creatures that are armed.
with teeth;
The robber then, and then the snake, the sorcerer, and then the
wolf.
5. The thief who cometh near to-day departeth bruised and crush-
ed to bits.
By nearest way let him be gone. Let Indra slay him with his
bolt.
6. Let the beast's teeth be broken off, shivered and shattered be
his ribs! p. a108
Slack be thy bowstring: downward go the wild beast that
pursues the hare!
7. Open not what thou hast compressed, close not what thou hast
not compressed.
Indra's and Soma's child, thou art Atharvan's tiger-crushing
charm.