The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s6.158

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† Another derivation from the same passage, xii. 267. 32 ff., is *ambā aṅgānāṃ vardhanāt*. In ib. 35 we find it stated that *mātā jānāti yad gotraṃ mātā jānāti yasya saḥ, mātur bharaṇamātreṇa prītiḥ snehaḥ pituh prajāḥ*—as if the mother alone could tell the family and father. With Ait. Br. vii. 13 ff., on *jāyā*, compare ‘the wife is *jāyā* because her husband is born (*jāyate*) in her; the wife’s wifeship is in this, that the husband is born of her; the wife is half of the man, the root of his heaven,’ iv. 21. 40 ff.; i. 74. 37 ff.