अथैनं मात्रे प्रदाय स्तनं प्रयच्छति—
यस्ते स्तनः शशयो यो मयोभूः, यो रत्नधा वसुविद्यः सुदत्रो ।
येन विश्वा पुष्यसि वार्याणि सरस्वति तमिह धातवे कर् ॥ इति ॥ २८ ॥athainaṃ mātre pradāya stanaṃ prayacchati—
yaste stanaḥ śaśayo yo mayobhūḥ, yo ratnadhā vasuvidyaḥ sudatro |
yena viśvā puṣyasi vāryāṇi sarasvati tamiha dhātave kar || iti || 27 ||27. Then he hands him to his mother to be suckled, saying, ‘O Sarasvatī, that breast of thine which is stored with results, is the sustainer of all, full of milk, the obtainer of wealth (one’s deserts) and generous, and through which thou, nourishest all who are worthy of it (the gods etc.)—transfer that here (to my wife, for my babe) to suck.’
Then he hands him, the child who is in his lap, to his mother to be suckled with the following Mantra: ‘O Sarasvatī, that breast,’ etc.