Agniveshyagrihyasutra 1.6.1

Now, having returned home [after completing studentship], he should marry a wife.

'Do not cut off the thread of offspring.'

According to this instruction of the teacher, [he should marry] a virgin girl who is complete in limbs, pleasing, younger, who has preserved her chastity, not belonging to the same gotra, not a sapiṇḍa kinsman of the mother, unblamed, uncensured, and not bearing a name of a constellation, river, or tree.

Then he sends messengers with [the verse]: 'May the paths be straight and thornless.'

He causes [them] to ask the guardian of the bride: 'Let him give the bride, [named] so-and-so of such-and-such gotra, to so-and-so of such-and-such gotra, for righteousness and offspring.'

When it is said, 'So be it,' [the bridegroom goes to receive] the bride.

In the waxing fortnight, under an auspicious constellation, having arranged fine pavilions, having tied the auspicious cord, having performed the auspicious recitation of blessings, having gone on foot to the bride's house, having received the madhuparka, having performed the preparations such as the digging [of the sacrificial ground], having brought fried grain, a millstone, and an unwashed garment, he performs [the rites] beginning with the bringing in of the Brahman priest up to the putting on of the enclosing sticks.

At this time, when the bride has the auspicious cord tied, has performed auspicious rites, wears the sacred thread, and has sipped water, having walked by the north and behind the fire, standing to the south facing east, the bridegroom, having walked by the north and in front of the fire, standing in front facing west, with a hand holding a strainer, with the mystic utterances, with the six [verses beginning with] 'Prajāpati in the female', standing to the south facing north, accepts [her] as she is given with water by the guardian of the bride with the words, 'I deliver so-and-so of such-and-such gotra to you, so-and-so of such-and-such gotra, for offspring and common duties,' and [he accepts] the woman's property.

Having sprinkled her with the three [verses beginning with] 'You waters indeed are comforting', with the four [verses beginning with] 'Golden-colored, pure, purifying', and with this anuvāka [beginning with] 'The purifier [Pavamāna], belonging to heaven', having seated her behind the fire as she entered, having laid aside the former [garment], he then clothes her in an unwashed garment with the three [verses beginning with] 'They who spun, who wove.'

He consecrates [it] with this [verse]: 'Put on this garment.'

Then, having seated her to the south facing east after she has sipped water, while she takes hold from behind, having decorated the fire with perfume and the like, he circum-pours water: to the south towards the east with 'O Aditi, permit'; to the west towards the north with 'O Anumati, permit'; to the north towards the east with 'O Sarasvatī, permit'; having circum-poured water on all sides clockwise with 'O divine Savitṛ, impel', he lays on two upright kindling sticks for the after-offerings.

Taking [two sticks] from the firewood bundle itself, he places [them] between the southern enclosing stick and the fire, and between the northern enclosing stick and the fire, at the bringing forward of the praṇītā waters, for the sake of the after-offerings.

Anointing the firewood bundle, he lays it on with 'This is your firewood bundle.'

Having touched water, having touched the base of the firewood bundle, he offers with the ladle: towards the north with 'To Prajāpati, svāhā', towards the east with 'To Indra, svāhā', having made the two clarified butter libations.

He offers the two clarified butter portions: to the north with 'To Agni, svāhā', to the south with 'To Soma, svāhā.'

Having offered in the middle with the mystic utterances, he offers thirteen oblations with [the verse beginning with] 'You who lie crosswise, I.' [1]