Atharva Veda · 90 of 724

HYMN XXIII

A charm to remove a woman’s sterility, and to assure the birth of boys 1. From thee we banish and expel the cause of thy sterility.   This in another place we lay apart from thee and far removed. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. With that auspicious general flow wherewith steers propagate    their kind,   Do thou obtain thyself a son: be thou a fruitfu! mother-cow. 5. 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. 6. 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.