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)
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