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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 59

AV 7 59.1

यो नः शपाद् अशपतः शपतो यश् च नः शपात् । वृक्ष इव विद्युता हत आ मूलाद् अनु शुष्यतु

yo naḥ śapād aśapataḥ śapato yaś ca naḥ śapāt | vṛkṣa iva vidyutā hata ā mūlād anu śuṣyatu

Whoever shall curse us who do not curse, and whoever shall curse us as we curse — let him, like a tree struck by lightning, dry up from the root onward.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Like a tree struck by lightning may the man be withered from the root. Who curseth us who curse not him, or, when we curse him. curseth us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)