Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 21.123

21.123

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."'