Viçveça viçvalocana

navapuñpotsave me’rghyaà

gåhäëa syämasundara

etad-arghyaà - oà çré viñëave namaù

oà cidänanda håñikeça

bhaktavaçya janärdana

navapuñpotsave me’rghyaà

gåhäëa kamaläpate

etad-arghyaà - oà çré viñëave namaù

“Oh Supreme Lord, at this festive occasion with fresh flowers please accept the arghya offered by me.”

With the worship of Lord Viñëu and the Vaiñëavas completed, he should procede to the place where he will unite with his wife. Before offering the arghya, or just before the act of union, the husband should be clean and decorated with sandalwood pulp and wearing nice cloth.

The husband facing East, should situate himself behind his seated wife. With his right hand reaching over her right shoulder he should touch her yoni saying:

oà prajäpatiù viñëu åñiù

anuñöup chandaù

çré viñëu acyuta hari jagadéçä devatä

garbhädhäne viniyogaù

oà viñëuù yonià kalpayatu

acyuto rüpäni piàçatu

äsiïcatu hariù garbhaà

jagadéço dadhätu te

“May Viñëu prepare the yoni; may Acyuta fashion the forms; may Hari carry out the fertilization; may Jagadéça present the child to you.”

oà prajäpatiù viñëu åñiù

anuñöup chandaù

çré garbhodaçäyi nara-näräyaëo devatä

garbhädhäne viniyogaù

oà garbhaà dhehi garbhodaçäyin garbhaà te naranäräyaëau

ädhattäà puñkara srajau

“Garbhodaçäyi Viñëu please bestow the child; Nara-Näräyaëa, bedecked with lotus garlands, please give her the child.”

Touching her navel he should say:

oà dérghäyuñaà kåñëa bhaktaà

putraà janaya suvrate

“Oh virtuous wife, bear a long-living son, a devotee of Kåñëa.”

Then they should unite.

This is the Garbhädhäna rite according to the followers of the Säma Veda.

Püàsavana

(Rite for making a male child)

In the case of a first pregnancy this rite should be performed during the third month of pregnancy.

@FOOTNOTE:

It may be performed later for other pregnancies, when the signs of pregnancy begin to show. Manu says that it should be performed when the foetus begins to move in the womb. Some commentators say the rite should be performed on the first pregnancy only, and not during the following pregnancies.

It should be performed when the moon is in a male constellation.

The woman should fast, bathe and put on a new cloth.

END FOOTNOTE

The husband having taken his morning bath, should worship Lord Viñëu and worship the guru paramparä with Viñëu mahä-prasäda and caraëämåtam

He should then set up a yajïa, performing Kuçandikä rites, calling the fire named “Candra,” and ending with virupäkña japa.

He should seat his wife to his own right side on the West side of the fire upon a kuçäsana. They should both face East.

Silently he should place ghee-soaked wood of one prädeça length into the fire and then perform Vyasta Samasta Mahävyahrti Homa:

oà prajäpatiù viñëu åñiù

gäyatré chandaù

çré viñëuù devatä

Vyasta samasta mahävyährti home viniyogaù

oà bhür svähä - idam viñëave idam na mama

oà prajäpatiù viñëu åñiù

uñëik chandaù

çré acyuto devatä