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shan' (1. 1. 3. 4) (are repeated) at the two following (oblations of fried grain).
8. After that sacrifice the husband, passing (behind her back), returns in the same way, and leads her round the fire so that their right sides are turned towards it, or a Brâhmana versed in the Mantras (does the same), with (the verse), 'The maid from the fathers' (MB. I, 2, 5).
9. After she has thus been lead round, she stands as before (Sutras 1. 2), and treads (on the stone) as before (Satra 3), and he murmurs the (Mantra) as before (Satra 4), and (her brother) pours (the fried grain into her hands) as before (Sûtra 5), and she sacrifices as before (Satra 6).
10. In the same way three times.
11. After (she) has poured the remnants (of the fried grain) into the fire, they make (her) step forward in a north-easterly direction with the formula), 'For sap with one step' (MB. I, 2, 6. 7).
12. She should put forward her right foot (first) and should follow with the left.
13. (The bridegroom) should say (to her), 'Do not put the left (foot) before the right.'
14. The lookers-on he should address with (the verse), ‘Auspicious ornaments wears this woman' (1. 1. 8).
15. To the west of the fire the water-carrier follows (their way) and besprinkles the bridegroom on his forehead, and also the other one (i.e. the bride),
8. As to the words ‘in the same way,' see the second Sætra of this chapter.
14-16. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, 27-31.
15. Comp. Sankhayana-Grihya I, 12, 5 note (vol. xxix, p. 33). The water-carrier is the person mentioned chap. 1, 13.
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