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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 88

AV 7 88.1

अपेह्य् अरिर् अस्य् अरिर् वा असि विषे विषम् अपृक्था विषम् इद् वा अपृक्थाः । अहिम् एवाभ्यपेहि तं जहि

apehy arir asy arir vā asi viṣe viṣam apṛkthā viṣam id vā apṛkthāḥ | ahim evābhyapehi taṃ jahi

Go away! You are a foe, a foe indeed you are; you have mixed poison with poison, poison indeed you have mixed. Go right at the snake — kill it!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Depart! thou art a foe, a foe. Poison with poison hast thou mixt, yea, verily poison hast thou mixt. Go to the serpent: strike him dead.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)