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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 3.23

For fecundity

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English · William Dwight Whitney

For fecundity

By what thou hast become barren (vehát), that we make disappear from thee; that now we set down elsewhere, far away from (ápa) thee.

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Unto thy womb let a fœtus come, a male one, as an arrow to a quiver; let a hero be born unto thee here, a ten-months' son.

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Give birth to a male, a son; after him let a male be born; mayest thou be mother of sons, of those born and whom thou shalt bear.

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And what excellent seeds the bulls generate, with them do thou acquire (vid) a son; become thou a productive milch-cow.

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I perform for thee the [ceremony] of Prajāpati; let a fœtus come to thy womb; acquire thou a son, O woman, who shall be weal for thee; weal also for him do thou become.

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The plants of which heaven has been the father, earth the mother, ocean the root—let those herbs of the gods (dāíva) favor thee, in order to acquisition of a son.

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W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗

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