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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
2. O thou (plant) with erect leaves, lovely, do thou, irged on by the gods, full of might, drive away my rival, make my husband mine alone!
3. He did not, forsooth, call thy name, and thou shalt not delight in this husband! To the very farthest distance do we drive our rival.
4. Superior am I, O superior (plant), superior, truly, to superior (women). Now shall my rival be inferior to those that are inferior!
5. I am overpowering, and thou, (O plant), art completely overpowering. Having both grown full of power, let us overpower my rival!
6. About thee (my husband) I have placed the overpowering (plant), upon thee placed the very overpowering one. May thy mind run after me as a calf after the cow, as water along its course !
VI, 138. Charm for depriving a man of his
virility. 1. As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb: turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed !
2. Turn him into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed, and into one that wears a hood! Then Indra with a pair of stones shall break his testicles both!
3. O eunuch, into a eunuch thee I have turned; O castrate, into a castrate thee I have turned ; O weakling, into a weakling thee I have turned ! A hood upon his head, and a hair-net do we place.
4. The two canals, fashioned by the gods, in which man's power rests, in thy testicles ...... ...... I break them with a club.
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