Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.270

2-7.270

'She who shall protect us today, Bhāradvāja's adorned,
pleasing [wife], dear to Agni—bring her to me, O Agni! Svāhā!'
For her [protection] he raised up an envious gandharva with an iron club in hand. He said to him: 'Yonder wife of yours has gone to Yavakrī. Go thither!' As she was coming, he approached her. She smiled. He said: 'Surely, woman, you ought not to smile; yet you smile! How so?' [She replied:] 'Because you will die!' Grasping his foot, she said: 'You, as a man, have certainly not perceived a woman with such feet!' Her two feet underneath were hairy; they were either deformed or not deformed. Just then, this gandharva with an iron club in hand strode up. He [Yavakrī] said: 'Homage to you! What is the expiation for this?'