Yajur Sama Atharvan Vedas

ATHARVA VEDA
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I, 11. Charm for easy parturition.
1. Aryaman as active hotar-priest shall utter for thee the vashat-call at this (soma-) pressing, O
Pûshan! May (this) woman, (herself) begotten in
the proper way, be delivered, may her joints relax, that she shall bring forth!
2. Four directions has the heaven, and also four the earth: (from these) the gods created the embryo.
May they open her, that she shall bring forth!
3. May Sûshan open: her womb do we cause to gape. Do thou, O Sûshan, loosen the womb, do thou,
O Bishkalâ, let go (the ernbryo)!
4. Attached not at all to the flesh, nor to the fat, not at all to the marrow, may the splotched, moist,
placenta come down to be eaten by a dog! May the placenta fall down!
5. I split open thy vagina, thy womb, thy canals; I separate the mother and the son, the child along
with the placenta. May the placenta fall down!
6. As flies the wind, as flies the mind, as fly the winged birds, so do thou, O embryo,. ten months old,
fall along with the placenta! May the placenta fall down!
I, 34. Charm with licorice, to secure the love of a woman.
1. This plant is born of honey, with honey do we dig for thee. Of honey thou art begotten, do thou
make us full of honey!
2. At the tip of my tongue may I have honey, at my tongue's root the sweetness of honey! In my
power alone shalt thou then be, thou shalt come up to my wish!
3. Sweet as honey is my entrance, sweet as honey my departure. With my voice do I speak sweet as
honey, may I become like honey!
4. I am sweeter than honey, fuller of sweetness than licorice. Mayest thou, without fail, long for me
alone, (as a bee) for a branch full of honey!
5. I have surrounded thee with a clinging sugarcane, to remove aversion, so that thou shalt not be
averse to me!
II, 30. Charm to secure the love of a woman.
1. As the wind tears this grass from the surface of the earth, thus do I tear thy soul, so that thou,
woman, shalt love, shalt not be averse to me!
2. If ye, O two Asvins, shall unite and bring together the loving pair-united are the fortunes of,both of
you (lovers), united the thoughts, united the purposes!
3. When birds desire to chirp, lustily desire to chirp, may my call go there, as an arrow-point upon the
shaft!
4. What is within shall be without, what is without shall be within! Take captive, O herb, the, soul of
the maidens endowed with every chai-m!
5. Longing for a husband this woman hath come, I have come longing for a wife, As a loudly
neighing horFe I have attained to my good fortune!
564