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to be offered, religious devotions performed, promi pent in that picture is seen the woman who is the wife and the inother. In those early days and down througı all mutations, and at the persent time, the most worthy households from every point of view, are those hoʻiseholds in which grand parents, parents, sons and their wives dwell together in unity and in the bonds of love, each doing his and her part for the comfort, instruction and happiness of the home,' not alone in domestic industries, but in the rights and cereinonies of religious devotion. I will give you a few of the prayers of the Rigveda pertaining to this exalted condition.
"Oh, ye gods, the marreiled couple who prepare oblations together, who purify the Soina juice and mix it with milk-may they obtain food for their cating and come united to the sacrifices (ligioufor service ), may they never have to go in quest foods. They worship you with the best offerings, blest with youthful and adolescent offspring, they acquire wealth and they both attain to a mature age. Then god themselves covet the worship of such a couple who neglect not religious sacrifices and duties, and who offer grateful services of worship and gifts to gods, and who embrace each other to continue their race, and they worship their gods.".
Again a beautiful picture is that of highly educated women who, themselvs, Risbis( sages), because
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