पुंसवनम्Puṁsavana
Verse 122
ततः सीमन्तिनी ब्रूयात् मायापुंसवनं त्रिधा । प्रसृतींस्त्रीन् पिवेन्नारी यवमाषयुतं दधि ॥ १२२ ॥
tataḥ sīmantinī brūyāt māyāpuṁsavanaṁ tridhā | prasṛtīṁstrīn pivēnnārī yavamāṣayutaṁ dadhi || 122 ||
Translation
The woman should answer three times, "māyā, puṁsavana", and should drink three handfuls of the curd with the barley and beans.
Word by word
- tataḥ
- (tataḥ) then
- sīmantinī
- the woman
- brūyāt
- should say
- māyā
- māyā (hrīṁ)
- puṁsavanaṁ
- puṁsavana
- tridhā
- three times
- prasṛtīṁs
- (prasṛtīn) handfuls
- trīn
- three
- pivēt
- (pibet) should drink
- nārī
- the woman
- yava
- barley
- māṣa
- and beans
- yutaṁ
- with
- dadhi
- curd
Meaning
The answer, as the ṭīkā has it, is "hrīṁ puṁsavanam", "hrīṁ, the bringing forth of a male". She drinks three palmfuls (prasṛti) of the curd, away from the place of the sacrifice.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Tataḥ". After that the woman (sīmantinī) should say three times "māyā-puṁsavana", that is "hrīṁ puṁsavanam" ("hrīṁ, the bringing forth of a male"). Then the woman, going elsewhere than the place of the sacrifice, should drink three handfuls (prasṛti) of curd with the barley and beans.