Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 138
AV 6 138.1
त्वं वीरुधां श्रेष्ठतमाभिश्रुतास्य् ओषधे । इमं मे अद्य पुरुषं क्लीबम् ओपशिनं कृधि
tvaṃ vīrudhāṃ śreṣṭhatamābhiśrutāsy oṣadhe | imaṃ me adya puruṣaṃ klībam opaśinaṃ kṛdhi
You are famed as the very best of plants, O herb; make this man of mine today a eunuch wearing a woman's headdress.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
O Plant, thy fame is spread abroad as best of all the herbs that grow. Unman for me to-day this man that he may wear the horn of hair.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 138.2
क्लीबं कृध्य् ओपशिनम् अथो कुरीरिणं कृधि । अथास्येन्द्रो ग्रावभ्याम् उभे भिनत्त्व् आण्ड्यौ
klībaṃ kṛdhy opaśinam atho kurīriṇaṃ kṛdhi | athāsyendro grāvabhyām ubhe bhinattv āṇḍyau
Make (him) a eunuch, wearing a headdress; and make him a wearer of the kurīra. Then let Indra with the two pressing-stones split both his testicles.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Make him a eunuch with a horn, set thou the crest upon his- head. Let Indra with two pressing-stones deprive him of his manly strength.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 138.3
क्लीब क्लीबं त्वाकरं वध्रे वध्रिं त्वाकरम् अरसारसं त्वाकरम् । कुरीरम् अस्य शीर्षणि कुम्बं चाधिनिदध्मसि
klība klībaṃ tvākaraṃ vadhre vadhriṃ tvākaram arasārasaṃ tvākaram | kurīram asya śīrṣaṇi kumbaṃ cādhinidadhmasi
O eunuch, I have made you a eunuch; O gelded one, I have made you gelded; O sapless one, I have made you sapless. On his head we set the kurīra and the kumba too.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
I have unmanned thee, eunuch! yea, impotent! made thee- impotent, and robbed thee, weakling! of thy strength. Upon his head we set the horn, we set the branching ornament.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 138.4
ये ते नाद्यौ देवकृते ययोस् तिष्ठति वृष्ण्यम् । ते ते भिनद्मि शम्ययामुष्या अधि मुष्कयोः
ye te nādyau devakṛte yayos tiṣṭhati vṛṣṇyam | te te bhinadmi śamyayāmuṣyā adhi muṣkayoḥ
Your two god-made channels, in which the virile seed stands — those two of yours I split with a peg, upon the testicles of that (person) yonder.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Duas tuas venas, a Diis factas, in quibus stat vigor virilis, paxillo ligneo in testiculis ob istam mulierem tibi findo.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 138.5
यथा नडम् कशिपुने स्त्रियो भिन्दन्त्य् अश्मना । एवा भिनद्मि ते शेपो ऽमुष्या अधि मुष्कयोः
yathā naḍam kaśipune striyo bhindanty aśmanā | evā bhinadmi te śepo 'muṣyā adhi muṣkayoḥ
As women split a reed with a stone for a mat, so I split your member, upon the testicles of that one.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Ut mulieres mattam (tegetem) facturae arundinem lapide findunt, sic fascinum tuum cum testiculis ob istam mulierem findo.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)