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GRIHYA-SÚTRA OF ÂPASTAMBA.
eyes, will bring happiness to him ; let him pay no attention to the other things: such is the opinion of
some.
Patala 2, SECTION 4. 1. Let him send out as his wooers friends who have assembled, who are versed in the Mantras.
2. He should recite over them the first two verses (Mantrap. I, 1, 1. 2).
3. When he himself has seen (the bride), let him murmur the third (verse ; M. I, 1, 3).
4. With the fourth (M. I, 1, 4) let him behold her.
5. Let him seize with his thumb and fourth finger a Darbha blade, and let him wipe (therewith) the interstice between her eye-brows with the next Yagus (M. I, 1, 5), and let him throw it away towards the west.
6. If an omen occurs (such as the bride's or her relations' weeping), let him murmur the next (verse ; M. I, 1, 6).
7. With the next (verse; M. I, 1, 7) let him send an even number of persons who have assembled there, and who are versed in the Mantras, to fetch water.
8. With the next Yagus (M. I, 1, 8) he places a round piece of Darbha net-work on her head; on that, with the next (verse; M. I, 1, 9) he places a right yoke-hole; on this hole he lays with the next (verse ; M. I, 1, 10), a piece of gold, and washes her with the next five verses (M. I, 2, 1-5), (so that the
4,8. As to the last sentence of this Satra, comp. the statements collected by Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, p. 59.
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