Mantra 1
Sukta 23
वीर-प्रसूतिः। येन वेहद् बभूविथ नाशयामसि तत् त्वत्। इदं तदन्यत्र त्वदप दूरे नि दध्मसि
vīrá-prasū́tiḥ | yéna vehád babhū́vitha nāśáyāmasi tát tvát | idáṃ tád anyátra tvád ápa dūré ní dadhmasi |
Hero-bearing is this. That whereby thou hast become barren—this from thee we cause to perish: that same do we set elsewhere, away from thee, far off, and down.
Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (domestic fertility corpus)
Devata: Implicitly the generative power (prajā/garbha); the ‘vehát’ defect is treated as an adversarial entity
Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)
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