[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s21.279 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.279 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.279 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.279](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.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). - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.278](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.278) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.280](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.280) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) ## Linked texts (8) - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.sankhayana.1.13.4) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.6.3) — Pāraskara, Sanskrit - [Kāṭhakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*kathaka.35.18) — Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.8.27) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.6.4.19) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.85.36) — Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.14.1.47) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit - [Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.asvalayana) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.279](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.279) · Pramāṇa