Friendship is lost on a Madraka as purity in Gandharakas and as oblation offered in a sacrifice where the king is both the sacrificer and the priest. As a Brahmana performing the initiation ceremony of a Sudra meets with deterioration as one who hates a Brahmana, meets with deterioration so a person, forming alliance with a Madraka, is deteriorated. As there is no friendship in a Madraka, so is your poison is powerless, O Scorpion; with this Mantra of Atharvan I have duly performed the ceremony of peace.
मद्रकेषु न संसृष्टं शौचं गान्धारकेषु च॥ राजयाजकयाज्ये च नष्टं दत्तं हरिभवेत्। शूद्रसंस्कारको विप्रो यथा याति पराभवम्॥ यथा ब्रह्मद्विषो नित्यं गच्छन्तीह पराभवम्। यथैव संगतं कृत्वा नरः पतति मद्रकैः॥ मद्रके संगतं नास्ति हतं वृश्चिक ते विषम्। आथर्वणेन मन्त्रेण यथा शान्तिः कृता मया।॥