Mantrabrahmana 1.1

God Savitṛ, impel the sacrifice,
impel the patron of the sacrifice toward good fortune!
May the heavenly Gandharva, purifier of thought, purify our thought;
may the lord of speech sweeten our speech!

O Desire, I know your name; intoxication is your name.
Bring her here; liquor has become yours.
Highest here is your birth, O Agni, formed from austerity! // svāhā

I join this lap of yours with honey;
this is the second mouth of Prajāpati.
By that may you overpower all men;
without control [themselves], you are in control, a queen! // svāhā

The ancient ṛṣis made flesh-consuming Agni hide
in the lap of women.
Thereby they made clarified butter three-horned, fashioner-made (Tvāṣṭra);
may he place that in you! // svāhā

They who cut, who wove, who stretched out [the threads],
and which goddesses fashioned the edges all around—
may those goddesses clothe you until old age;
O long-lived one, put on this garment!

Clothe, clothe her with a garment;
make [her] live a hundred autumns, a long life!
And live a hundred autumns, full of splendor;
and, living, distribute riches to the master!

Soma gave [her] to the Gandharva;
the Gandharva gave [her] to Agni.
Agni gave wealth and sons to me,
and also her.

May my path that leads to the husband be made ready;
auspicious, unharmed, may I go to the husband's realm!

May her path that leads to the husband be made ready;
auspicious, unharmed, may you go to the husband's realm!

May Agni come first among the deities;
may he release her offspring from the noose of death!
May this King Varuṇa consent to that,
so that this woman may not weep for grandson-related misfortune! // svāhā

May this Agni Gārhapatya protect her;
may he make her offspring reach old age!
May she, with a non-empty lap, be a mother of living children;
may she awaken to grandson-delight! // svāhā

May Heaven protect your back,
may Vāyu protect the thighs, and the two Aśvins!
May Savitṛ protect your suckling sons;
until the putting on of the garment, may Bṛhaspati,
may the All-Gods protect [them] from behind! // svāhā

Let no wailing arise in your house by night;
may weeping women enter elsewhere than with you!
Do not, weeping, beat your breast;
as one whose husband lives, shine in the husband's realm,
seeing your cheerful offspring! // svāhā

Childlessness, death of grandsons,
evil, or also misfortune—
loosening it like a garland from the head,
I cast the noose upon the enemies! // svāhā

May death depart; immortality has come to me;
may Vaivasvata grant us freedom from fear!
Go far away, O death, along the path
which is another for us, distinct from the path of the gods!
To you who have eyes and who hear, I say:
do not harm our offspring, nor our heroes! // svāhā