Atharva Veda 4.6

Against the poison of a poisoned arrow

The Brahman was born first, with ten heads, with ten mouths; he first drank the soma; he made the poison sapless.

As great as [are] heaven-and-earth by their width, as much as the seven rivers spread out (vi-sthā), [so far] have I spoken out from here these words (vā́c), spoilers of poison.

The winged (garutmant) eagle consumed (av) thee first, O poison; thou hast not intoxicated (mad), thou hast not racked (rup) [him]; and thou becamest drink for him.

He of five fingers that hurled at thee from some crooked bow—from the tip (çalyá) of the apaskambhá have I exorcised (nir-vac) the poison.

From the tip have I exorcised the poison, from the anointing and from the feather-socket; from the barb (apāṣṭhá), the horn, the neck have I exorcised the poison.

Sapless, O arrow, is thy tip; likewise thy poison is sapless; also thy bow, of a sapless tree, O sapless one, is sapless.

They who mashed, who smeared, who hurled, who let loose—they [are] all made impotent; impotent is made the poison-mountain.

Impotent [are] thy diggers; impotent art thou, O herb; impotent [is] that rugged (párvata) mountain whence was born this poison.