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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 3 — Chapter 23

AV 3 23.1

येन वेहद् बभूविथ नाशयामसि तत् त्वत् । इदं तद् अन्यत्र त्वद् अप दूरे नि दध्मसि

yena vehad babhūvitha nāśayāmasi tat tvat | idaṃ tad anyatra tvad apa dūre ni dadhmasi

That by which you have become a barren cow — we make it vanish from you; this we lay down elsewhere than you, away, far off.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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From thee we banish and expel the cause of thy sterility. This in another place we lay apart from thee and far removed.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 3 23.2

आ ते योनिं गर्भ एतु पुमान् बाण इवेषुधिम् । आ वीरो ऽत्र जायतां पुत्रस् ते दशमास्यः

ā te yoniṃ garbha etu pumān bāṇa iveṣudhim | ā vīro 'tra jāyatāṃ putras te daśamāsyaḥ

Let a male embryo come into your womb, as an arrow into a quiver; let a hero be born here, a son of ten months for you.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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As arrow to the quiver, so let a male embryo enter thee. Then from thy side be born a babe, a ten-month child, thy hero son.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 3 23.3

पुमांसं पुत्रं जनय तं पुमान् अनु जायताम् । भवासि पुत्राणां माता जातानां जनयाश् च यान्

pumāṃsaṃ putraṃ janaya taṃ pumān anu jāyatām | bhavāsi putrāṇāṃ mātā jātānāṃ janayāś ca yān

Beget a male son; after him let a male be born. May you be the mother of sons, of those born and of those you shall beget.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Bring forth a male, bring forth a son. Another male shall follow him. The mother shalt thou be of sons born and hereafter to be born.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 3 23.4

यानि बद्राणि बीजान्य् ऋषभा जनयन्ति च । तैस् त्वं पुत्रं विन्दस्व सा प्रसूर् धेनुका भव

yāni badrāṇi bījāny ṛṣabhā janayanti ca | tais tvaṃ putraṃ vindasva sā prasūr dhenukā bhava

What auspicious seeds there are, and (which) the bulls generate — with these obtain a son for yourself; be you a milk-giving breeder.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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With that auspicious general flow wherewith steers propagate their kind, Do thou obtain thyself a son: be thou a fruitfu! mother-cow.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 3 23.5

कृणोमि ते प्राजापत्यम् आ योनिं गर्भ एतु ते । विन्दस्व त्वं पुत्रं नारि यस् तुभ्यं शम् असच् छम् उ तस्मै त्वम् भव

kṛṇomi te prājāpatyam ā yoniṃ garbha etu te | vindasva tvaṃ putraṃ nāri yas tubhyaṃ śam asac cham u tasmai tvam bhava

I make for you what belongs to Prajāpati; let the embryo come into your womb. Obtain a son, woman, one who will be a blessing to you, and be you a blessing to him.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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I give thee power to bear a child: within, thee pass the germ of life! Obtain a son, O woman, who shall be a blessing unto thee. Be thou a blessing unto him.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 3 23.6

यासाम् द्यौः पिता पृथिवी माता समुद्रो मूलं वीरुधां बभूव । तास् त्वा पुत्रविद्याय दैवीः प्रावन्त्व् ओषधयः

yāsām dyauḥ pitā pṛthivī mātā samudro mūlaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva | tās tvā putravidyāya daivīḥ prāvantv oṣadhayaḥ

Those (plants) of which the sky is father, the earth mother, (and) the ocean was the root — let those divine herbs help you to the obtaining of a son.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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May those celestial herbs whose sire was Heaven, the Earth their mother, and their root the ocean. May those celestial healing Plants assist thee to obtain a son.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)