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GRIHYA-SÚTRA OF GOBHILA.
15. They place roasted grain mixed with Sami leaves, to the amount of four handfuls, in a winnowing basket behind the fire,
16. And an upper mill-stone.
17. Now (the girl) whose hand he is going to seize, has been washed, (her whole body) including her head.
18. The husband should put on her a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, with the verse, • They who spun' (Mantra-Brâhmana I, 1, 5), and with (the verse), 'Put on her, dress her' (1. 1. 6).
19. Leading forward (from the house to the sacred fire, the bride) who is wrapped in her robe and wears the sacrificial cord over her left shoulder, he should murmur (the verse), 'Soma gave her to the Gandharva' (MB. I, 1, 7).
20. While she, to the west of the fire, pushes forward with her foot a rush-mat or something else of that kind, veiled (with clothes), he should make her say: 'May the way which my husband goes, be open to me.
21. If she does not murmur (these words out of shame, &c.), he should murmur (them, saying), 'To her' (instead of 'To me').
22. She should make the end of the rush-mat (Satra 20) reach the end of the Barhis.
23. On the east end of the rush-mat she sits down to the right of the bridegroom.
17-19. Khadira-Grihya I, 3, 6. Yagnopavitinîm in Sätra 19 means, according to the commentary, that she wears her outer garment arranged like the sacrificial cord, over her left shoulder; for women are not allowed to wear the sacrificial cord itself.
20. Grihya-samgraha II, 27 seq.
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