Atharva Veda 5.23

ote me dyāvāpṛthivī otā devī sarasvatī otau ma indraś cāgniś ca krimiṃ jambhayatām iti

Against worms

Worked in (óta) for me [are] heaven-and-earth; worked in [is] divine Sarasvatī; worked in for me [are] both Indra and Agni: to the effect "let them (dual) grind up the worm."

asyendra kumārasya krimīn dhanapate jahi hatā viśvā arātaya ugreṇa vacasā mama

O Indra, lord of riches, smite thou the worms of this boy; smitten are all the niggards by my formidable spell (vácas).

yo akṣyau parisarpati yo nāse parisarpati datāṃ yo madhyaṃ gacchati taṃ krimiṃ jambhayāmasi

What one creeps about his eyes, what one creeps about his nostrils, what one goes to the midst of his teeth—that worm do we grind up.

sarūpau dvau virūpau dvau kṛṣṇau dvau rohitau dvau babhruś ca babhrukarṇaś ca gṛdhraḥ kokaś ca te hatāḥ

Of like form two, of various form two, black two, red two; both the brown and the brown-eared, the vulture and the cuckoo (kóka)—they are slain.

ye krimayaḥ śitikakṣā ye kṛṣṇāḥ śitibāhavaḥ ye ke ca viśvarūpās tān krimīn jambhayāmasi

The worms that are white-sided, that are black with white arms, and whatever ones are of all forms—those worms we grind up.

ut purastāt sūrya eti viśvadṛṣṭo adṛṣṭahā dṛṣṭāṃś ca ghnann adṛṣṭāṃś ca sarvāṃś ca pramṛṇan krimīn

Up in the east goes the sun, seen of all, slayer of the unseen, slaying both those seen and those unseen, and slaughtering all worms.

yevāṣāsaḥ kaṣkaṣāsa ejatkāḥ śipavitnukāḥ dṛṣṭaś ca hanyatāṃ krimir utādṛṣṭaś ca hanyatām

The yévāshas, the káshkashas, the stirrers, the çipavitnukás—both let the seen worm be slain, and let the unseen be slain.

hato yevāṣaḥ krimīṇāṃ hato nadanimota sarvān ni maṣmaṣākaraṃ dṛṣadā khalvāṁ iva

Slain is the yévāsha of the worms, slain also the nadanimán; I have put them all down, smash (? maṣmaṣā́) like khálva-grains with a millstone.

triśīrṣāṇaṃ trikakudaṃ krimiṃ sāraṅgam arjunam śṛṇāmy asya pṛṣṭīr api vṛścāmi yacchiraḥ

The three-headed, the three-humped (-kakúd), the variegated, the whitish worm—I crush the ribs of it; I hew at what is its head.

atrivad vaḥ krimayo hanmi kaṇvavaj jamadagnivat agastyasya brahmaṇā saṃ pinaṣmy ahaṃ krimīn

Like Atri I slay you, O worms, like Kaṇva, like Jamadagni; with the incantation of Agastya I mash together the worms.

hato rājā krimīṇām utaiṣāṃ sthapatir hataḥ hato hatamātā krimir hatabhrātā hatasvasā

Slain is the king of the worms, also the chief of them is slain; slain is the worm, having its mother slain, its brother slain, its sister slain.

hatāso asya veśaso hatāsaḥ pariveśasaḥ atho ye kṣullakā iva sarve te krimayo hatāḥ

Slain are its neighbors, slain its further neighbors, also those that are petty, as it were—all those worms are slain.

sarveṣāṃ ca krimīṇāṃ sarvāsāṃ ca krimīnām bhinadmy aśmanā śiro dahāmy agninā mukham

Both of all worms and of all she-worms I split the head with a stone, I burn the mouth with fire.