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5. "I make to thee the work of a lord of procreation. The embryo 

 may go into thy womb. Obtain thou a son, 0 woman, that may be hap- 

 piness to thee, and happiness be thou to him. 



6. ''The herbs, the father of which was heaven, the mother the 

 earth, and ocean the root, those divine plants may help thee to the ob- 

 taining of a son." 



Athaevaveda YIII., 6. 



against female bakrenness. 



(This hymn is very obscure, and even seems to have gaps, as espe- 

 cially may be seen from str. 2. where we have a whole string of accu- 

 satives without a verb). 



1. "Those two whom to thee the mother has wiped, the two that 

 know the husband. 



'' There the Durnaman must not be greedy, nor the Alinga who 

 protects the children. 



2. *' There the fleshy one (?) and the one that goes after flesh. The 

 Sarku, the Koka (i. e. wolf), the dirty setting (? Sun), the Palijaka, the 

 embracer, the Yavrivasa. 



3. '' By no means connect thyself with her, do not crawl to the two 

 loins, do not crawl down inside. I made to her a remedy, the Baja 

 who chases the Durnaman away. 



4. "Durnaman and Sunaman [i.e. Avauowfio^ and Evwj/v^o?, L.], 

 both desire connexion. "We drive away the Arayas. Sunaman may 

 go to the womankind. 



5. "He that is black, hairy, 0 Asura, born in a shrub, or endowed 

 with a snout. We strike away the Arayas. 



6. " Him who tries about by smelling, the flesh-eater, the licker, 

 the Arayas and dogcutters, them Baja, Pinga did destroy. 



7. " Him who comes in a dream to thee as if he were thy brother 

 or father, Baja may keep them off from here, the eunuch shaped ones 

 with diadems. 



8. " Who skulks up to thee when asleep, who would hurt thee when 

 awake, those the Sun may annihilate like a shadow. 



9. " Him who makes this woman with a dead child and with an abor- 

 tion, him, 0 herb, destroy thou, her slippery lover (?). 



10. " Those who dance about the houses at night, braying like asses, 

 the Kusulas, Kukshilas, Kakubhas, Karumas, and Srimas, those, 0 

 herb, destroy thou by thy smell, the convicted ones. 



11. " Those Kukundhas and Kukurabhas who wear skins as woven 

 clothes, who make a noise in the forest, dancing like eunuchs, those we 

 annihilate from hence. 



12. "Who bear not the sun, the shining one of heaven, the Arayas 

 that dwell with goats (?), the ill-smelling, the red- mouthed, the Ma- 

 kakas we destroy. 



