Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.279

v1.c3.s21.279

⁹⁶ *Cf.* Rv. x. 85, 36. 38; Av. xiv. 1, 47. 48. Before the bride mounted the stone, the groom repeated, according to the Gṛhya Sūtras (Āśvalāyana, i. 7, 3; Śāṅkhāyana, i. 13, 4; Pāraskara, i. 6, 3, etc.), the words, ‘I am he, thou art she; I the Sāman, thou the Ṛc; I the heaven, thou the earth; here will we unite ourselves and produce offspring,’ for which see Av. xiv. 2, 71; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxv. 18; Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 27; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 4, 19 (Mādhyamdina).