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Rigveda 10.109.3

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 10.109.3

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Sanskrit

10.109.3

haste̍nai̱va grā̱hya̍ ā̱dhir a̍syā brahmajā̱yeyam iti̱ ced avo̍can |
na dū̱tāya̍ pra̱hye̍ tastha e̱ṣā tathā̍ rā̱ṣṭraṁ gu̍pi̱taṁ kṣa̱triya̍sya ||

The man, her pledge, must by her hand be taken when they have cried, She is a Brahman's consort. She stayed not for a herald to conduct her: thus is the kingdom of a ruler guarded.

Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda

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