History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c28.3

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¹²⁷¹ Vide Ṛg. X. 85. 26 and 46. These are पूषा त्वेतो नयतु हस्तगृह्याश्विना त्वा प्रवहता रथेन । गृहान्गच्छ गृहपत्नी यथासो वशिनी त्वं विदथमा वदासि ॥...सम्राज्ञी अधि देवृषु ॥ (last quoted above in n. 1229). The word *dampatī* (which occurs very frequently in the Ṛg.) conveys in several places the idea of a monogamous marriage. Vide Ṛg. V. 3. 2, VIII. 31. 5, X. 68. 2.