Atharva Veda · 306 of 724

HYMN CXXXVIII

A woman's imprecation on her unfaithful lover 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Duas tuas venas, a Diis factas, in quibus stat vigor virilis,    paxillo ligneo in testiculis ob istam mulierem tibi findo. 5. Ut mulieres mattam (tegetem) facturae arundinem lapide findunt,    sic fascinum tuum cum testiculis ob istam mulierem findo.