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1. ¹ (a) ‘May Viṣṇu make thy womb ready; may Tvaṣṭṛ frame the shape (of the child); may Prajāpati pour forth (the sperm); may Dhātṛ give thee conception!

(b) ‘Give conception, Sinīvālī; give conception, Sarasvatī! May the two Aśvins, wreathed with lotus, give conception to thee!

(c) ‘The embryo which the two Aśvins produce with their golden kindling-sticks: that embryo we call into thy womb, that thou mayst give birth to it after ten months.

(d) ² ‘As the earth is pregnant with Agni, as the heaven is with Indra pregnant, as Vāyu dwells in the womb of the regions (of the earth), thus I place an embryo into thy womb.

(e) ‘Open thy womb; take in the sperm; may a male child, an embryo be begotten in the womb. The mother bears him ten months; may he be born, the most valiant of his kin.

(f) ‘May a male embryo enter thy womb, as an arrow the quiver; may a man be born here, thy son, after ten months.

(g) ³ ‘I do with thee (the work) that is sacred to Prajāpati; may an embryo enter thy womb. May a child be born without deficiency, with all its limbs, not blind, not lame, not sucked out by Piśācas.

(h) ⁴ ‘By the superior powers which the bulls shall produce for us, thereby become thou pregnant; may he be born, the most valiant of his kin.

(i) ⁵ ‘Indra has laid down in the tree the embryo of the sterile cow and of the cow that prematurely produces; thereby become thou pregnant; be a well-breeding cow’ -

And (besides with the two Mantras), ‘United are our names’ (above, 24, 4), and, ‘The concord of the cakravāka birds’ (24, 6).

विष्णुर्योनिं कल्पयतु त्वष्टा रूपाणि पिंशतु आसिञ्चतु प्रजापतिर्धाता गर्भं दधातु ते गर्भं धेहि सिनीवालि गर्भं धेहि सरस्वति गर्भं ते अश्विनावुभावाधत्तां पुष्करस्रजौ हिरण्ययी अरणी यं निर्मन्थतो अश्विना तं ते गर्भं हवामहे दशमास्याय सूतवै यथाग्निगर्भा पृथिवी द्यौर्यथेन्द्रे ण गर्भिणी वायुर्यथा दिशां गर्भ एवं गर्भं दधामि ते यस्य योनिं प्रति रेतो गृहाण पुमान्पुत्रो जायतां गर्भो अन्तः तं माता दश मासो बिभर्तु स जायतां वीरतमः स्वानाम् आ ते गर्भो योनिमेतु पुमान्बाण इवेषुधिम् आ वीरो अत्र जायतां पुत्रस्ते दशमास्यः करोमि ते प्राजापत्यमा गर्भो योनिमेतु ते अनूनः पूर्णो जायतामनन्धोश्लोणोपिशाचधीरः यानि प्रभूणि वीर्याण्यृषभा जनयन्तु नः तैस्त्वं गर्भिणी भव स जायतां वीरतमः स्वानाम् यो वशायां गर्भो यश्च वेहतीन्द्र स्तं निदधे वनस्पतौ तेन त्वं गर्भिणी भव सा प्रसूर्धेनुगा भव सं नाम्नः । चाक्रवाकम् । इति च १

2. (He should cohabit with her with the formulas), ‘Bhūḥ! Through Prajāpati, the highest bull, I pour forth (the sperm); conceive a valiant son, N.N.! Bhuvaḥ! Through Prajāpati, &c. - Suvaḥ! Through Prajāpati, &c.’ Thus he will gain a valiant son.

भूः प्रजापतिनात्यृषभेण स्कन्दयामि वीरं धत्स्वासौ भुवः प्रजापतिनात्यृषभेण स्कन्दयामि वीरं धत्स्वासौ सुवः प्रजापतिनात्यृषभेण स्कन्दयामि वीरं धत्स्वासौ इति वीरं हैव जनयति २

3. The Mantras ought to be repeated whenever they cohabit, according to Ātreya,

सर्वाण्युपगमनानि मन्त्रवन्ति भवन्तीत्यात्रेयः ३

4. Only the first time and after her monthly courses, according to Bādarāyaṇa.

यच्चादौ यच्चर्ताविति बादरायणः ४