Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·5·5.23
ओते मे द्यावापृथिवी ओता देवी सरस्वती । ओतौ म इन्द्रश् चाग्निश् च क्रिमिं जम्भयताम् इति ॥१॥
ote me dyāvāpṛthivī otā devī sarasvatī | otau ma indraś cāgniś ca krimiṃ jambhayatām iti ||1||
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."
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अस्येन्द्र कुमारस्य क्रिमीन् धनपते जहि । हता विश्वा अरातय उग्रेण वचसा मम ॥२॥
asyendra kumārasya krimīn dhanapate jahi | hatā viśvā arātaya ugreṇa vacasā mama ||2||
O Indra, lord of riches, smite thou the worms of this boy; smitten are all the niggards by my formidable spell (vácas).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो अक्ष्यौ परिसर्पति यो नासे परिसर्पति । दतां यो मध्यं गछति तं क्रिमिं जम्भयामसि ॥३॥
yo akṣyau parisarpati yo nāse parisarpati | datāṃ yo madhyaṃ gachati taṃ krimiṃ jambhayāmasi ||3||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सरूपौ द्वौ विरूपौ द्वौ कृष्णौ द्वौ रोहितौ द्वौ । बभ्रुश् च बभ्रुकर्णश् च गृध्रः कोकश् च ते हताः ॥४॥
sarūpau dvau virūpau dvau kṛṣṇau dvau rohitau dvau | babhruś ca babhrukarṇaś ca gṛdhraḥ kokaś ca te hatāḥ ||4||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये क्रिमयः शितिकक्षा ये कृष्णाः शितिबाहवः । ये के च विश्वरूपास् तान् क्रिमीन् जम्भयामसि ॥५॥
ye krimayaḥ śitikakṣā ye kṛṣṇāḥ śitibāhavaḥ | ye ke ca viśvarūpās tān krimīn jambhayāmasi ||5||
The worms that are white-sided, that are black with white arms, and whatever ones are of all forms—those worms we grind up.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उत् पुरस्तात् सूर्य एति विश्वदृष्टो अदृष्टहा । दृष्टांश् च घ्नन्न् अदृष्टांश् च सर्वांश् च प्रमृणन् क्रिमीन् ॥६॥
ut purastāt sūrya eti viśvadṛṣṭo adṛṣṭahā | dṛṣṭāṃś ca ghnann adṛṣṭāṃś ca sarvāṃś ca pramṛṇan krimīn ||6||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
येवाषासः कष्कषास एजत्काः शिपवित्नुकाः । दृष्टश् च हन्यतां क्रिमिर् उतादृष्टश् च हन्यताम् ॥७॥
yevāṣāsaḥ kaṣkaṣāsa ejatkāḥ śipavitnukāḥ | dṛṣṭaś ca hanyatāṃ krimir utādṛṣṭaś ca hanyatām ||7||
The yévāshas, the káshkashas, the stirrers, the çipavitnukás —both let the seen worm be slain, and let the unseen be slain.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
हतो येवाषः क्रिमीणां हतो नदनिमोत । सर्वान् नि मष्मषाकरं दृषदा खल्वां इव ॥८॥
hato yevāṣaḥ krimīṇāṃ hato nadanimota | sarvān ni maṣmaṣākaraṃ dṛṣadā khalvāṃ iva ||8||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
त्रिशीर्षाणं त्रिककुदं क्रिमिं सारङ्गम् अर्जुनम् । शृणाम्य् अस्य पृष्टीर् अपि वृश्चामि यच् छिरः ॥९॥
triśīrṣāṇaṃ trikakudaṃ krimiṃ sāraṅgam arjunam | śṛṇāmy asya pṛṣṭīr api vṛścāmi yac chiraḥ ||9||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अत्रिवद् वः क्रिमयो हन्मि कण्ववज् जमदग्निवत् । अगस्त्यस्य ब्रह्मणा सं पिनष्म्य् अहं क्रिमीन् ॥१०॥
atrivad vaḥ krimayo hanmi kaṇvavaj jamadagnivat | agastyasya brahmaṇā saṃ pinaṣmy ahaṃ krimīn ||10||
Like Atri I slay you, O worms, like Kaṇva, like Jamadagni; with the incantation of Agastya I mash together the worms.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
हतो राजा क्रिमीणाम् उतैषां स्थपतिर् हतः । हतो हतमाता क्रिमिर् हतभ्राता हतस्वसा ॥११॥
hato rājā krimīṇām utaiṣāṃ sthapatir hataḥ | hato hatamātā krimir hatabhrātā hatasvasā ||11||
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.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
हतासो अस्य वेशसो हतासः परिवेशसः । अथो ये क्षुल्लका इव सर्वे ते क्रिमयो हताः ॥१२॥
hatāso asya veśaso hatāsaḥ pariveśasaḥ | atho ye kṣullakā iva sarve te krimayo hatāḥ ||12||
Slain are its neighbors, slain its further neighbors, also those that are petty, as it were—all those worms are slain.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सर्वेषां च क्रिमीणां सर्वासां च क्रिमीनाम् । भिनद्म्य् अश्मना शिरो दहाम्य् अग्निना मुखम् ॥१३॥
sarveṣāṃ ca krimīṇāṃ sarvāsāṃ ca krimīnām | bhinadmy aśmanā śiro dahāmy agninā mukham ||13||
Both of all worms and of all she-worms I split the head with a stone, I burn the mouth with fire.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)