Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.11
वषट् ते पूषन्न् अस्मिन्त् सूताव् अर्यमा होता कृणोतु वेधाः । सिस्रतां नार्य् ऋतप्रजाता वि पर्वाणि जिहतां सूतवा उ ॥१॥
vaṣaṭ te pūṣann asmint sūtāv aryamā hotā kṛṇotu vedhāḥ | sisratāṃ nāry ṛtaprajātā vi parvāṇi jihatāṃ sūtavā u ||1||
At this birth, O Pūshan, let Aryaman [as] efficient (vedhás) invoker utter váṣaṭ for thee; let the woman, rightly engendered, be relaxed; let her joints go apart in order to birth.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
चतस्रो दिवः प्रदिशश् चतस्रो भूम्या उत । देवा गर्भं सम् ऐरयन् तं व्य् ऊर्णुवन्तु सूतवे ॥२॥
catasro divaḥ pradiśaś catasro bhūmyā uta | devā garbhaṃ sam airayan taṃ vy ūrṇuvantu sūtave ||2||
Four [are] the directions of the sky, four also of the earth: the gods sent together the fœtus; let them unclose her in order to birth.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सूषा व्य् ऊर्णोतु वि योनिं हापयामसि । श्रथया सूषणे त्वम् अव त्वं बिष्कले सृज ॥३॥
sūṣā vy ūrṇotu vi yoniṃ hāpayāmasi | śrathayā sūṣaṇe tvam ava tvaṃ biṣkale sṛja ||3||
Let Pūshan (?) unclose [her or it]; we make the yóni go apart; do thou, sūṣaṇā, loosen; do thou, biṣkalā, let go.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
नेव मांसे न पीवसि नेव मज्जस्व् आहतम् । अवैतु पृश्नि शेवलं शुने जराय्व् अत्तवे ऽव जरायु पद्यताम् ॥४॥
neva māṃse na pīvasi neva majjasv āhatam | avaitu pṛśni śevalaṃ śune jarāyv attave 'va jarāyu padyatām ||4||
Not as it were stuck (ā́hata) in the flesh, not in the fat, not as it were in the marrows, let the spotted slimy (?) afterbirth come down, for the dog to eat; let the afterbirth descend.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
वि ते भिनद्मि मेहनं वि योनिं वि गवीनिके । वि मातरं च पुत्रं च वि कुमारं जरायुणाव जरायु पद्यताम् ॥५॥
vi te bhinadmi mehanaṃ vi yoniṃ vi gavīnike | vi mātaraṃ ca putraṃ ca vi kumāraṃ jarāyuṇāva jarāyu padyatām ||5||
I split apart thy urinator, apart the yóni, apart the [two] groins, apart both the mother and the child, apart the boy from the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यथा वातो यथा मनो यथा पतन्ति पक्षिणः । एवा त्वं दशमास्य साकं जरायुणा पताव जरायु पद्यताम् ॥६॥
yathā vāto yathā mano yathā patanti pakṣiṇaḥ | evā tvaṃ daśamāsya sākaṃ jarāyuṇā patāva jarāyu padyatām ||6||
As the wind, as the mind, as fly the birds, so do thou, O ten months' [child], fly along with the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)