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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.138

त्वं वीरुधां श्रेष्ठतमाभिश्रुतास्य् ओषधे । इमं मे अद्य पुरुषं क्लीबम् ओपशिनं कृधि ॥१॥

tvaṃ vīrudhāṃ śreṣṭhatamābhiśrutāsy oṣadhe | imaṃ me adya puruṣaṃ klībam opaśinaṃ kṛdhi ||1||

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

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

क्लीबं कृध्य् ओपशिनम् अथो कुरीरिणं कृधि । अथास्येन्द्रो ग्रावभ्याम् उभे भिनत्त्व् आण्ड्यौ ॥२॥

klībaṃ kṛdhy opaśinam atho kurīriṇaṃ kṛdhi | athāsyendro grāvabhyām ubhe bhinattv āṇḍyau ||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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

क्लीब क्लीबं त्वाकरं वध्रे वध्रिं त्वाकरम् अरसारसं त्वाकरम् । कुरीरम् अस्य शीर्षणि कुम्बं चाधिनिदध्मसि ॥३॥

klība klībaṃ tvākaraṃ vadhre vadhriṃ tvākaram arasārasaṃ tvākaram | kurīram asya śīrṣaṇi kumbaṃ cādhinidadhmasi ||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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

ये ते नाद्यौ देवकृते ययोस् तिष्ठति वृष्ण्यम् । ते ते भिनद्मि शम्ययामुष्या अधि मुष्कयोः ॥४॥

ye te nādyau devakṛte yayos tiṣṭhati vṛṣṇyam | te te bhinadmi śamyayāmuṣyā adhi muṣkayoḥ ||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).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यथा नडम् कशिपुने स्त्रियो भिन्दन्त्य् अश्मना । एवा भिनद्मि ते शेपो ऽमुष्या अधि मुष्कयोः ॥५॥

yathā naḍam kaśipune striyo bhindanty aśmanā | evā bhinadmi te śepo 'muṣyā adhi muṣkayoḥ ||5||

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

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)