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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.78

तेन भूतेन हविषायम् आ प्यायतां पुनः । जायाम् याम् अस्मा आवाक्षुस् ताम् रसेनाभि वर्धताम् ॥१॥

tena bhūtena haviṣāyam ā pyāyatāṃ punaḥ | jāyām yām asmā āvākṣus tām rasenābhi vardhatām ||1||

By this actual (? bhūtá) oblation let this man be filled up again; the wife that they have brought to him, let him grow superior (abhi-vṛdh) to her by essence (rása).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

अभि वर्धतां पयसाभि राष्ट्रेण वर्धताम् । रय्या सहस्रवर्चसेमौ स्ताम् अनुपक्षितौ ॥२॥

abhi vardhatāṃ payasābhi rāṣṭreṇa vardhatām | rayyā sahasravarcasemau stām anupakṣitau ||2||

Let him grow superior to [her] by fatness (páyas), let him grow superior to [her] by royalty; by wealth of thousand-fold splendor let these two be unexhausted.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

त्वष्टा जायाम् अजनयत् त्वष्टास्यै त्वां पतिम् । त्वष्टा सहस्रम् आयुंषि दीर्घम् आयुः कृणोतु वाम् ॥३॥

tvaṣṭā jāyām ajanayat tvaṣṭāsyai tvāṃ patim | tvaṣṭā sahasram āyuṃṣi dīrgham āyuḥ kṛṇotu vām ||3||

Tvashṭar generated the wife, Tvashṭar [generated] thee as husband for her; let Tvashṭar make for you two a thousand life-times (ā́yus), a long life-time.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)