Verse 45

⁴⁵You shall have a son, good woman, a killer of Indra and a friend of the gods, if you keep this vow properly for a year. ⁴⁶I will keep the vow, brahmin. Tell me what I must do, and what is forbidden here, and what does not break it. ⁴⁷She should not harm any living creature, should not curse, should not speak what is untrue, should not cut her nails or her hair, should not touch what is inauspicious. ⁴⁸She should not bathe in water, should not grow angry, should not talk with bad people, should not wear unwashed clothes or ever a garland someone else has worn. ⁴⁹She should not eat leavings, or food given to Candika, or food with meat in it, or food brought by a low man, or food a menstruating woman has looked at, and she should not drink water from her cupped hands.

⁵⁰She should not go out of doors with leavings on her, or without having touched water, or at twilight, or with her hair loose, or without having made her worship, or with her speech unchecked, or uncovered. ⁵¹She should not lie down with unwashed feet, or unclean, or with wet feet, or with her head to the north, or turned to the west, or with others, or naked, or at either twilight. ⁵²In washed clothes, always clean, with everything auspicious about her, she should honour before the morning meal the cows, the brahmins, Sri and the Unfallen. ⁵³She should honour women whose husbands and sons are living, with garlands and scents and offerings and ornaments, and having honoured her husband should wait on him and hold him in mind as being within her womb.

⁵⁴This vow of a year, for the getting of a son, if you keep it unbroken, you will have a boy who kills Indra.