Atharvaveda 6.138
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.138
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.138.1
tváṃ vīrúdhāṃ śréṣṭhatamābhiśrutā́sy oṣadhe |
imáṃ me adyá púruṣaṃ klībám opaśínaṃ kr̥dhi ||1||
Thou art listened to, O herb, as the most best of plants; make thou now this man for me impotent (klībá), opaçá-wearing.
6.138.2
klībáṃ kr̥dhy opaśínam átho kurīríṇaṃ kr̥dhi |
áthāsyéndro grā́vabhyām ubhé bhinattv āṇḍyàu ||2||
Do thou make him impotent, opaçá-wearing, likewise make him kurī́ra-wearing; then let Indra with the (two) pressing-stones split both his testicles.
6.138.3
klī́ba klībáṃ tvākaraṃ vádhre vádhriṃ tvākaram árasārasáṃ tvākaram |
kurī́ram asya śīrṣáṇi kúmbaṃ cādhinídadhmasi ||3||
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.
6.138.4
yé te nādyàu devákr̥te yáyos tíṣṭhati vŕ̥ṣṇyam |
té te bhinadmi śámyayāmúṣyā ádhi muṣkáyoḥ ||4||
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).
6.138.5
yáthā naḍám kaśípune stríyo bhindánty áśmanā |
evā́ bhinadmi te śépo 'múṣyā ádhi muṣkáyoḥ ||5||
As women split reeds with a stone for a cushion, so do I split thy member, on yon woman's loins.
Translations (3)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
Discussed in (11)
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- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- Education in Ancient India — Altekar 1934, English
- Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) — Acharya 1927, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- A History of Indian Literature — Winternitz 1927, English
- Geschichte der indischen Litteratur — Winternitz 1905, German
- The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day — Altekar 1938, English
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Majumdar 1927, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Filliozat 1949, English