When, O Gods, like wonder-workers, you inflated the worlds and all that is, you restored to the realm of day the Sun, who was lying hidden beneath the sea.
Rig Veda X, 72, 7
When she is about to deliver the child, he sprinkles her with water, repeating the following mantra: As the wind agitates a pond on every side, even so let your foetus stir and come out along with the chorion. Indra (prana) made a path when the seed entered the womb. O Indra, follow that path and come out with the foetus and the covering and cause also the after birth to come forth with the babe.
When the son is born, he should light a fire, take the child on his lap, put a mixture of curds and clarified butter in a bell-metal cup and offer oblations in the fire repeatedly, uttering the mantra: May I increase as the son in my own home and support a thousand people! May the Goddess of Fortune never depart, with children and cattle, from his line! Svaha! The vital breath that is in me, I mentally offer to you. Svaha! If I have done anything too much or too little in this ceremony, may the all-knowing and highly beneficent fire make it just right and proper for me. Svaha!
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad VI, IV-Conception and Birth as Religious Rites, 24
Then, putting his mouth to the child’s right ear, he should say thrice: Speech! Speech! Next he would mix together curds, honey and clarified butter and feed the child with a golden stick which is not placed inside the mouth, saying these mantras: I put the earth (Bhuh) into you; I put the sky (Bhuvah) into you; I put heaven (Svah) into you. The whole of earth, sky and heaven I put into you.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad VI, IV-Conception and Birth as Religious Rites, 25
Eight in number are the sons of Aditi, who from her body sprang to life. With seven she joined the ranks of the Gods; the eighth, the Sun, she thrust to one side.
Rig Veda X, 72, 8
