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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 1.14

भगम् अस्या वर्च आदिष्य् अधि वृक्षाद् इव स्रजम् । महाबुध्न इव पर्वतो ज्योक् पितृष्व् आस्ताम् ॥१॥

bhagam asyā varca ādiṣy adhi vṛkṣād iva srajam | mahābudhna iva parvato jyok pitṛṣv āstām ||1||

Her portion (bhága), splendor have I taken to myself, as from off a tree a garland; like a mountain with great base, let her sit long with the Fathers.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

एषा ते राजन् कन्या वधूर् नि धूयताम् यम । सा मातुर् बध्यतां गृहे ऽथो भ्रातुर् अथो पितुः ॥२॥

eṣā te rājan kanyā vadhūr ni dhūyatām yama | sā mātur badhyatāṃ gṛhe 'tho bhrātur atho pituḥ ||2||

Let this girl, O king, be shaken down to thee [as] bride, O Yama; be she bound in her mother's house, also in her brother's, also in her father's.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

एषा ते कुलपा राजन् ताम् उ ते परि दद्मसि । ज्योक् पितृष्व् आसाता आ शीर्ष्णः शमोप्यात् ॥३॥

eṣā te kulapā rājan tām u te pari dadmasi | jyok pitṛṣv āsātā ā śīrṣṇaḥ śamopyāt ||3||

She is thy housekeeper, O king; we commit her to thee; she shall sit long with the Fathers, until the covering in of her head.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

असितस्य ते ब्रह्मणा कश्यपस्य गयस्य च । अन्तःकोशम् इव जामयो ऽपि नह्यामि ते भगम् ॥४ ॥

asitasya te brahmaṇā kaśyapasya gayasya ca | antaḥkośam iva jāmayo 'pi nahyāmi te bhagam ||4 ||

With the incantation (bráman) of Asita, of Kaçyapa, and of Gaya, I shut up (api-nah) thy portion (vulva?), as sisters do what is within a box (-kóça).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)