०१ विवाहः

पुण्ये नक्षत्रे दारान्कुर्वीत १

1. ¹ Under a propitious Nakṣatra let him take a wife—

लक्षणप्रशस्तान्कुशलेन २

2. ² Who should possess the auspicious characteristics in due way.

तदलाभे पिण्डान् ३

3. If he can find no such (woman, he should take) earth-clods—

वेद्याः सीताया हृदाद्गोष्ठाच्चतुष्पथादादेवनादादहनादिरिणात् ४

4. ³ From an altar, a furrow, a pool, a cow-stable, a place where four roads meet, a gambling-place, a place where corpses are burnt, and from sterile soil;

सर्वेभ्यः सम्भार्यं नवमम् ५

5. A ninth (earth-clod) mixed of all.

समान्कृतलक्षणान् ६

6. (These he should make) equal (and should) make marks at them.

पाणावाधाय कुमार्या उपनामयेदृतमेव प्रथममृतं नात्येति कश्चन र्त इयं पृथिवी श्रिता सर्वमिदमसौ भूयादिति तस्या नाम गृहीत्वैषामेकं गृहाणेति ब्रूयात् ७

7. ⁴ Taking them in his hand he should offer them to the girl, and (reciting the formula): ‘Right alone is the first; right nobody oversteps; on right this earth is founded. May N.N. become this universe!‘—he should pronounce her name and should say: ‘Take one of these.’

पूर्वेषां चतुर्णां गृह्णन्तीमुपयच्छेत् ८

8. If she takes one of the first four (clods), he should marry her,

सम्भार्यमपि त्वेके ९

9. ⁵ And according to some (teachers) also, if (she takes) the mixed one.

क्लीतकैर्यवैर्माषैर्वाप्लुतां सुहृत्सुरोत्तमेन सशरीरां त्रिर्मूर्धन्यभिषिञ्चेत्काम वेद ते नाम मदो नामासीति समानयामुमिति पतिनाम गृह्णीयात्स्वाहाकारान्ताभिरुपस्थमुत्तराभ्यां प्लावयेत् १०

10. ⁶ After she has been washed with Klītaka, barley and beans, a friend should besprinkle her three times at her head, so that her whole body becomes wet, with Surā of first quality, with (the formula), ‘Kāma! I know thy name. Intoxication thou art by name,’ &c. (Mantra-Brāhmaṇa I, 1, 2). (In the passage of the formula), ‘Bring hither N.N.,’ he should pronounce the husband’s name. (The Mantras should have) the word Svāhā at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts.

ज्ञातिकर्मैतत् ११

11. That has to be done by (female) relatives (of the bride).

पाणिग्रहणे पुरस्ताच्छालाया उपलिप्तेऽग्निरुपसमाहितो भवति १२

12. At the wedding wood has been put on the fire to the east of the house, on a surface besmeared (with cow-dung).

अथ जन्यानामेको ध्रुवाणामपां कलशं पूरयित्वा सहोदकुम्भः प्रावृतो वाग्यतोऽग्रेणाग्निं परिक्रम्य दक्षिणत उदङ्मुखोऽवतिष्ठते १३

13. ⁷ Then one of the people who assist at the wedding, fills a cup with ‘firm’ water, and having walked with the water-pot round the fire on its front side, silent, wrapped in his robe, he stations himself to the south (of the fire), facing the north

प्राजनेनान्यः १४

14. Another person with a goad (walks in the same way and stations himself in the same place).

शमीपलाशमिश्राँ श्च लाजाँ श्चतुरञ्जलिमात्राञ् छूर्पेणोऽपसादयन्ति पश्चादग्नेः १५

15. They place roasted grain mixed with Śamī leaves, to the amount of four handfuls, in a winnowing basket behind the fire,

दृषत्पुत्रं च १६

16. And an upper mill-stone.

अथ यस्याः पाणिं ग्रहीष्यन्भवति सशिरस्का साप्लुता भवति १७

17. ⁸ Now (the girl) whose hand he is going to seize, has been washed, (her whole body) including her head.

अहतेन वसनेन पतिः परिदध्याद्या अकृन्तन्नित्येतयर्चा परिधत्त धत्त वाससेति च १८

18. The husband should put on her a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, with the verse, ‘They who spun’ (Mantra-Brāhmaṇa I, 1, 5), and with (the verse), ‘Put on her, dress her’ (l.l. 6).

प्रावृतां यज्ञोपवीतिनीमभ्युदानयन्जपेत्सोमोऽददद्गन्धर्वायेति १९

19. Leading forward (from the house to the sacred fire, the bride) who is wrapped in her robe and wears the sacrificial cord over her left shoulder, he should murmur (the verse), ‘Soma gave her to the Gandharva’ (MB. I, 1, 7).

पश्चादग्नेः संवेष्टितं कटमेवञ्जातीयं वान्यत्पदा प्रवर्तयन्तीं वाचयेत्प्र मे पतियानः पन्थाः कल्पतामिति २०

20. ⁹ While she, to the west of the fire, pushes forward with her foot a rush-mat or something else of that kind, veiled (with clothes), he should make her say: ‘May the way which my husband goes, be open to me.’

स्वयं जपेदजपन्त्यां प्रास्या इति २१

21. If she does not murmur (these words out of shame, &c.), he should murmur (them, saying), ‘To her’ (instead of ‘To me’).

बर्हिषोऽन्तं कटान्तं प्रापयेत् २२

22. She should make the end of the rush-mat (Sūtra 20) reach the end of the Barhis.

पूर्वे कटान्ते दक्षिणतः पाणिग्राहस्यो-पविशति २३

23. On the east end of the rush-mat she sits down to the right of the bridegroom.

दक्षिणेन पाणिना दक्षिणमँ समन्वारब्धायाः षडाज्याहुतीर्जुहोत्यग्निरेतु प्रथम इत्येतत्प्रभृतिभिः २४

24. ¹⁰ While she touches his right shoulder with her right hand, he sacrifices six oblations of Ājya with (the verse), ‘May Agni go as the first,’ and the following (verses) (MB. I, 1, 9-14)—

महाव्याहृतिभिश्च पृथक् २५

25. And (three oblations) with the Mahāvyāhṛtis, one by one;

सम स्ताभिश्चतुर्थीम् २६

26. A fourth with (the four Mahāvyāhṛtis) together.