A charm for power and preeminence

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

HYMN XV

A charm for power and preeminence

1Most excellent of all the plants art thou: thy vassals are the
   trees.
  Let him be subject to our power, the man who seeks to injure
   us.
2Whoever seeks to injure us, with kinsmen or no kin to aid,
  May I be uppermost of all, even as this Plant is queen of trees.
3As Soma hath been made the best of all oblations 'mid the
   plants,
  So, as Talāsā is the queen of trees, may I be chief of all.