Atharva Veda 16.1

Paryāya the first

Let go [is] the bull of the waters; let go [are] the heavenly fires.

Breaking, breaking about, killing, slaughtering;—

Dimming ⌊mroká⌋, mind-slaying, digging, out-burning, self-spoiling, body-spoiling.

That one now I let go; that one let me not wash down against myself;—

That one do we let go against him who hates us, whom we hate.

Thou art tip (ágra) of the waters; I let you go down unto the ocean.

The fire that is in the waters, it do I let go, the dimming, digging, body-spoiling one.

The fire that entered into you, O waters, this is that; what of you is terrible, this is that.

May [it] pour upon you with Indra's Indra-power (indriyá).

Free from defilement (-riprá) [are] the waters; let them [carry] away from us defilement;—

Let them carry forth from us sin; let them carry forth evil-dreaming.

With propitious eye look at me, O waters; with propitious body touch my skin.

We call the propitious fires that sit in the waters. Put in me dominion [and] splendor, O divine [waters].