Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.136
देवी देव्याम् अधि जाता पृथिव्याम् अस्य् ओषधे । तां त्वा नितत्नि केशेभ्यो दृंहणाय खनामसि ॥१॥
devī devyām adhi jātā pṛthivyām asy oṣadhe | tāṃ tvā nitatni keśebhyo dṛṃhaṇāya khanāmasi ||1||
Thou art born divine on the divine one, [namely] the earth, O herb; thee here, O down-stretcher, we dig in order to fix the hair.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
दृंह प्रत्नान् जनयाजातान् जातान् उ वर्षीयसस् कृधि ॥२॥
dṛṃha pratnān janayājātān jātān u varṣīyasas kṛdhi ||2||
Fix thou the old ones, generate those unborn, and make longer those born.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यस् ते केशो ऽवपद्यते समूलो यश् च वृश्चते । इदं तं विश्वभेषज्याभि षिञ्चामि वीरुधा ॥३॥
yas te keśo 'vapadyate samūlo yaś ca vṛścate | idaṃ taṃ viśvabheṣajyābhi ṣiñcāmi vīrudhā ||3||
What hair of thine falls down, and what one is hewn off with its root, upon it I now pour with the all-healing plant.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)