Atharvaveda 3.23
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3.23
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.23.1
yéna vehád babhū́vitha nāśáyāmasi tát tvát |
idáṃ tád anyátra tvád ápa dūré ní dadhmasi ||1||
By what thou hast become barren (vehát), that we make disappear from thee; that now we set down elsewhere, far away from (ápa) thee.
3.23.2
ā́ te yóniṃ gárbha etu púmān bā́ṇa iveṣudhím |
ā́ vīró 'tra jāyatāṃ putrás te dáśamāsyaḥ ||2||
Unto thy womb let a fœtus come, a male one, as an arrow to a quiver; let a hero be born unto thee here, a ten-months' son.
3.23.3
púmāṃsaṃ putráṃ janaya táṃ púmān ánu jāyatām |
bhávāsi putrā́ṇāṃ mātā́ jātā́nāṃ janáyāś ca yā́n ||3||
Give birth to a male, a son; after him let a male be born; mayest thou be mother of sons, of those born and whom thou shalt bear.
3.23.4
yā́ni badrā́ṇi bī́jāny r̥ṣabhā́ janáyanti ca |
táis tváṃ putráṃ vindasva sā́ prasū́r dhénukā bhava ||4||
And what excellent seeds the bulls generate, with them do thou acquire (vid) a son; become thou a productive milch-cow.
3.23.5
kr̥ṇómi te prājāpatyám ā́ yóniṃ gárbha etu te |
vindásva tváṃ putráṃ nāri yás túbhyaṃ śám ásac chám u tásmai tvám bháva ||5||
I perform for thee the [ceremony] of Prajāpati; let a fœtus come to thy womb; acquire thou a son, O woman, who shall be weal for thee; weal also for him do thou become.
3.23.6
yā́sām dyáuḥ pitā́ pr̥thivī́ mātā́ samudró mū́laṃ vīrúdhāṃ babhū́va |
tā́s tvā putravídyāya dáivīḥ prā́vantv óṣadhayaḥ ||6||
The plants of which heaven has been the father, earth the mother, ocean the root—let those herbs of the gods (dāíva) favor thee, in order to acquisition of a son.
Translations (3)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (8)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English