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SÂNKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SÛTRA.
4. And with the two (verses), 'Pure are thy wheels,' 'Thy two wheels' (Rig-veda X, 85, 12. 16), of the two wheels the first with the first (verse) and the second with the second (verse),
5. And the two bulls. 6. After the wife ?) has put, with this (verse), In the box of the wheel' (Rig-veda VIII, 80, 7), a branch of a fruit-bearing tree into each of the holes destined for the pins,
7. Or, if (such branches) are already) fixed, has recited (that verse) over them,
8. They then harness the two bulls with the two (verses), 'Harnessed be thy right one' (Rig-veda I, 82, 5-6), (the bridegroom) reciting the half-verse, White the two bulls' (Rig-veda X, 85, 10), over them when they have been harnessed.
9. Now should any part of the chariot break or burst, let him take the girl to the house of one who keeps the sacred fires,
10. And repair (the damage) with the verse, *Cover thyself with the Khadiras' (Rig-veda III, 53, 19).
11. A knot with the verse, 'Him like a horse' (Rig-veda X, 143, 2).
12. He then murmurs the five verses, “May prosperity give us' (Rig-veda V, 51, 11-15).
13. 'Adorned with Kimsuka flowers' (Rig-veda X, 85, 20), when she mounts the chariot ;
14. May no waylayers meet us' (ibid. 32), at a cross-way;
15. Which the woman's' (ibid. 31), near a cemetery; 16. The half-verse, O tree with thy hundred 6. See Nârâyana's note on sam yâgarta, p. 129 of the German edition.
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