Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.101

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.101

आ वृषायस्व श्वसिहि वर्धस्व प्रथयस्व च । यथाङ्गं वर्धतां शेपस् तेन योषितम् इज् जहि ॥१॥

ā vṛṣāyasva śvasihi vardhasva prathayasva ca | yathāṅgaṃ vardhatāṃ śepas tena yoṣitam ij jahi ||1||

Play thou the bull, blow, increase and spread; let thy member increase limb by limb; with it smite the woman.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

येन कृषं वाजयन्ति येन हिन्वन्त्य् आतुरम् । तेनास्य ब्रह्मणस् पते धनुर् इवा तानया पसः ॥२॥

yena kṛṣaṃ vājayanti yena hinvanty āturam | tenāsya brahmaṇas pate dhanur ivā tānayā pasaḥ ||2||

Wherewith they invigorate one who is lean, wherewith they incite (hi) one who is ill—with that, O Brahmaṇaspati, make thou his member taut like a bow.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

आहं तनोमि ते पसो अधि ज्याम् इव धन्वनि । क्रमस्व ऋष इव रोहितम् अनवग्लायता सदा ॥३॥

āhaṃ tanomi te paso adhi jyām iva dhanvani | kramasva ṛṣa iva rohitam anavaglāyatā sadā ||3||

I make thy member taut, like a bowstring on a bow; mount, as it were a stag a doe, unrelaxingly always.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)