Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 21.123

21.123

kṛṣṇasarpa u haivaināṃ pratyuttasthau
sā ha tadeva nirvidyopaviveśa
atha hāśvinau darvihomiṇau bhiṣajyantāvidaṃ ceraturanapisomau
tau haināmetyocatuḥ kumāri | sthaviro vā ayamasarvo nālaṃ
patitvanāyāvayorjāyaidhīti
neti hovāca
yasmā eva mā pitādāt | tasya jāyā bhaviṣyāmīti
taddhāyamājughoṣa
atha hemau preyatuḥ
sa hovāca kumāri | ko nveṣa ghoṣo'bhūditi
puruṣau memāvupāgātāṃ yatkalyāṇatamaṃ rūpāṇāṃ tena rūpeṇeti
tau tvā kimavocatāmiti
kumāri | sthaviro vā ayamasarvo nālaṃ patitvanāyāvayorjāyaidhīti
sā tvaṃ kimavoca iti
netyahamavocaṃ | yasmā eva mā pitādāttasya jāyā bhaviṣyāmīti

a black serpent rose up against her. Despairing right there, she sat down. Then the two Aśvins, ladle-offerers, practicing medicine and excluded from Soma, were roaming through this [world]. Coming up to her, they said: 'O maiden, this man is incomplete, not fit to be a husband. Become the wife of us two.' 'No,' she said, 'I shall be the wife of the one to whom my father gave me.' He overheard this. Then those two departed. He said: 'O maiden, what was this sound?' 'Two men approached me, possessing the most beautiful of forms.' 'What did they say to you?' '"O maiden, this man is incomplete, not fit to be a husband. Become the wife of us two."' 'What did you say?' '"No," I said, "I shall be the wife of the one to whom my father gave me."'