Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.81
यन्तासि यछसे हस्ताव् अप रक्षांसि सेधसि । प्रजां धनं च गृह्णानः परिहस्तो अभूद् अयम् ॥१॥
yantāsi yachase hastāv apa rakṣāṃsi sedhasi | prajāṃ dhanaṃ ca gṛhṇānaḥ parihasto abhūd ayam ||1||
Thou art a holder, thou boldest (yam) the two hands, thou drivest away the demons. Seizing (grah) progeny and riches, this hath become a hand-clasp (parihastá).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
परिहस्त वि धारय योनिं गर्भाय धातवे । मर्यादे पुत्रम् आ धेहि तं त्वम् आ गमयागमे ॥२॥
parihasta vi dhāraya yoniṃ garbhāya dhātave | maryāde putram ā dhehi taṃ tvam ā gamayāgame ||2||
O hand-clasp, hold apart the womb, in order to placing of the embryo; O thou sign (? maryā́dā), put in a son; him do thou make to come, thou comer (? ā́gamā).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यं परिहस्तम् अबिभर् अदितिः पुत्रकाम्या । त्वष्टा तम् अस्या आ बध्नाद् यथा पुत्रं जनाद् ॥३॥
yaṃ parihastam abibhar aditiḥ putrakāmyā | tvaṣṭā tam asyā ā badhnād yathā putraṃ janād ||3||
The hand-clasp that Aditi wore [when] desiring a son—may Tvashṭar bind that on for her, saying "that she may give birth to a son."
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)