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iii. 23- variant. Also this one in MP. ⌊i. 12. 9⌋ (Winternitz, p. 94), and in an appendix to AGS. i. 13. 6 (Stenzler, p. 48), with yonim after garbhas in a (and AGS. reads āitu), and omitting atra in c; and further in HGS. (i. 25. 1), like MP. in a, but retaining atra.

3. Give birth to a male, a son; after him let a male be born; mayest thou be mother of sons, of those born and whom thou shalt bear.

4. And what excellent seeds the bulls generate, with them do thou acquire (vid) a son; become thou a productive milch-cow.

5. I perform for thee the [ceremony] of Prajāpati; let a fœtus come to thy womb; acquire thou a son, O woman, who shall be weal for thee; weal also for him do thou become.

6. The plants of which heaven has been the father, earth the mother, ocean the root—let those herbs of the gods (dāíva) favor thee, in order to acquisition of a son.