{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06138.htm","path":"hin/av/av06138.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06138.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1O Plant, thy fame is spread abroad as best of all the herbs that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grow.\n \u00a0\u00a0Unman for me to-day this man that he may wear the horn of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hair.\n 2Make him a eunuch with a horn, set thou the crest upon his-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0head.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Indra with two pressing-stones deprive him of his manly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength.\n 3I have unmanned thee, eunuch! yea, impotent! made thee-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0impotent, and robbed thee, weakling! of thy strength.\n \u00a0\u00a0Upon his head we set the horn, we set the branching ornament.\n 4Duas tuas venas, a Diis factas, in quibus stat vigor virilis,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0paxillo ligneo in testiculis ob istam mulierem tibi findo.\n 5Ut mulieres mattam (tegetem) facturae arundinem lapide findunt,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sic fascinum tuum cum testiculis ob istam mulierem findo.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 138: A woman's imprecation on her unfaithful lover","type":"page"}