History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.215

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The hotṛ hands over the veda bunch to the sacrificer’s wife and makes her repeat aloud ‘thou art veda...may I secure progeny. To thee for Kāma’ (Āśv. I. 11. 1) and the sacrificer recites, when the veda bunch is being given to the wife ‘thou art Veda...... may I secure gifts’ (Tai. S. I. 6. 6. 4) and when the veda is placed on her lap by the wife²⁴¹⁴ she repeats ‘may veda give &c.’ (Tai. S. I. 6. 6. 4). The wife thrusts it with ‘drive out the enemy, the hater’ (Āp. III. 10. 4). The wife touches her navel with the top of the veda bunch if she desires progeny.