Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·3·3.23

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 3.23

येन वेहद् बभूविथ नाशयामसि तत् त्वत् । इदं तद् अन्यत्र त्वद् अप दूरे नि दध्मसि ॥१॥

yena vehad babhūvitha nāśayāmasi tat tvat | idaṃ tad anyatra tvad apa dūre ni dadhmasi ||1||

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

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

आ ते योनिं गर्भ एतु पुमान् बाण इवेषुधिम् । आ वीरो ऽत्र जायतां पुत्रस् ते दशमास्यः ॥२॥

ā te yoniṃ garbha etu pumān bāṇa iveṣudhim | ā vīro 'tra jāyatāṃ putras te daśamāsyaḥ ||2||

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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

पुमांसं पुत्रं जनय तं पुमान् अनु जायताम् । भवासि पुत्राणां माता जातानां जनयाश् च यान् ॥३॥

pumāṃsaṃ putraṃ janaya taṃ pumān anu jāyatām | bhavāsi putrāṇāṃ mātā jātānāṃ janayāś ca yān ||3||

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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यानि बद्राणि बीजान्य् ऋषभा जनयन्ति च । तैस् त्वं पुत्रं विन्दस्व सा प्रसूर् धेनुका भव ॥४॥

yāni badrāṇi bījāny ṛṣabhā janayanti ca | tais tvaṃ putraṃ vindasva sā prasūr dhenukā bhava ||4||

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

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

कृणोमि ते प्राजापत्यम् आ योनिं गर्भ एतु ते । विन्दस्व त्वं पुत्रं नारि यस् तुभ्यं शम् असच् छम् उ तस्मै त्वम् भव ॥५॥

kṛṇomi te prājāpatyam ā yoniṃ garbha etu te | vindasva tvaṃ putraṃ nāri yas tubhyaṃ śam asac cham u tasmai tvam bhava ||5||

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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यासाम् द्यौः पिता पृथिवी माता समुद्रो मूलं वीरुधां बभूव । तास् त्वा पुत्रविद्याय दैवीः प्रावन्त्व् ओषधयः ॥६॥

yāsām dyauḥ pitā pṛthivī mātā samudro mūlaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva | tās tvā putravidyāya daivīḥ prāvantv oṣadhayaḥ ||6||

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.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)