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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 6.138

To make a certain man impotent

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English · William Dwight Whitney

To make a certain man impotent

Thou art listened to, O herb, as the most best of plants; make thou now this man for me impotent (klībá), opaçá-wearing.

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Do thou make him impotent, opaçá-wearing, likewise make him kurī́ra-wearing; then let Indra with the (two) pressing-stones split both his testicles.

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Impotent one, I have made thee impotent; eunuch (vádhri), I have made thee eunuch; sapless one, I have made thee sapless; the kurī́ra and the kúmba we set down upon his head.

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The two god-made tubes that [are] thine, in which stands thy virility, those I split for thee with a peg, on yon woman's loins (muṣká).

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As women split reeds with a stone for a cushion, so do I split thy member, on yon woman's loins.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers within Whitney's verse count are included (3522).

W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗

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