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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
(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.
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(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) 'I do with thee (the work) that is sacred to Pragâpati; 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 Pisakas.
(h) '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) 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 wellbreeding cow'
And (besides with the two Mantras), 'United are our names' (above, 24, 4), and, 'The concord of the kakravâka birds' (24, 6).
2. (He should cohabit with her with the formulas), 'Bhuh! Through Pragâpati, the highest bull, I pour forth (the sperm); conceive a valiant son, N. N. !— Bhuvah! Through Pragâpati, &c.—Suvah! Through Pragâpati, &c.' Thus he will gain a valiant son.
3. The Mantras ought to be repeated whenever they cohabit, according to Atreya,
4. Only the first time and after her monthly courses, according to Bâdarâyana.
(g) Comp. Atharva-veda III, 23, 5. The Âpastambîya Mantrapâtha reads (a) pisâkadhîtah.
(h) Sankhâyana-Grihya I, 19, 6; Atharva-veda III, 23, 4. (i) Comp. Atharva-veda III, 23, 1.
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