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with six steps. Be friend with seven steps. So be thou devoted to me. Let us acquire many sons who may reach old age !'
20. Joining together their two heads, (the bridegroom ? the Âkârya ?) sprinkles them (with water) from the water-pot.
21. And she should dwell that night in the house of an old Brâhmana woman whose husband is alive and whose children are alive.
22. When she sees the polar-star, the star Arundhati, and the seven Rishis (ursa major), let her break the silence (and say), ‘May my husband live and I get offspring.'
KANDIKÂ 8. 1. If (the newly-married couple) have to make a journey (to their new home), let him cause her to mount the chariot with the (verse), ‘May Pashan lead thee from here holding thy hand' (Rig-veda X, 85, 26).
2. With the hemistich, 'Carrying stones (the river) streams; hold fast each other' (Rig-veda X, 53, 8) let him cause her to ascend a ship.
3. With the following (hemistich) let him make her descend (from it).
4. (He pronounces the verse), 'The living one they bewail' (Rig-veda X, 40, 10), if she weeps.
5. They constantly carry the nuptial fire in front.
20. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 14, 9; Pâraskara I, 8, 5. 22. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 17, 2 seq.; Pâraskara I, 8, 19. 8, 1. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 15, 13. 2. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 15, 17. 18. 4. Sânkhâyana-Gríhya I, 15, 2.
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