Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 3.3.1.10

3.3.1.10

atha patnyai padam pratiparāharanti | gṛhā vai patnyai pratiṣṭhā tadgṛheṣvevaināmetatpratiṣṭāyām pratiṣṭhāpayati tasmātpatnyai padam pratiparāharanti

Thereupon they hand (the dust of) the footprint over to the (sacrificer's) wife. The house being the wife's resting-place, he thereby establishes her in that safe resting-place, the house: for this reason he hands over the (earth of the) foot-print to the wife.