{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03023.htm","path":"hin/av/av03023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03023.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1From thee we banish and expel the cause of thy sterility.\n \u00a0\u00a0This in another place we lay apart from thee and far removed.\n 2As arrow to the quiver, so let a male embryo enter thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Then from thy side be born a babe, a ten-month child, thy hero\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0son.\n 3Bring forth a male, bring forth a son. Another male shall follow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him.\n \u00a0\u00a0The mother shalt thou be of sons born and hereafter to be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born.\n 4With that auspicious general flow wherewith steers propagate\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their kind,\n \u00a0\u00a0Do thou obtain thyself a son: be thou a fruitfu! mother-cow.\n 5I give thee power to bear a child: within, thee pass the germ of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life!\n \u00a0\u00a0Obtain a son, O woman, who shall be a blessing unto thee. Be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou a blessing unto him.\n 6May those celestial herbs whose sire was Heaven, the Earth their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mother, and their root the ocean.\n \u00a0\u00a0May those celestial healing Plants assist thee to obtain a son.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 23: A charm to remove a woman's sterility, and to assure the birth of boys","type":"page"}