Atharvaveda 6.11
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.11
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.11.1
śamī́m aśvatthá ā́rūḍhas tátra puṃsúvanaṃ kr̥tám |
tád vái putrásya védanaṃ tát strīṣv ā́ bharāmasi ||1||
The açvatthá [has] mounted upon the çamī́; there is made the generation of a male; that verily is the obtainment of a son; that we bring into women.
6.11.2
puṃsí vái réto bhavati tát striyā́m ánu ṣicyate |
tád vái putrásya védanaṃ tát prajā́patir abravīt ||2||
In the male, indeed, grows (bhū) the seed; that is poured along into the woman; that verily is the obtainment of a son; that Prajāpati said.
6.11.3
prajā́patir ánumatiḥ sinīvāly àcīkl̥pat |
stráiṣūyam anyátra dádhat púmāṃsam u dadhat ihá ||3||
Prajāpati, Anumati, Sinīvālī hath shaped; may he put elsewhere woman-birth; but may he put here a male.
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 (1)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
Discussed in (8)
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — Majumdar et al. 1951, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — Muir 1858, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Mukhopadhyaya 1923, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English