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1 ¹ . If (in the chariot) of a king the axle breaks, or something that is bound loosens itself, or the chariot is overturned, or if another accident happens, or (if one of these same things occurs) when a bride is carried home, he establishes the same fire, prepares Ājya, and sacrifices (two Ājya oblations) separately with the two Mantras, ‘Here is joy’ (Vāj. Saṃh. VIII, 51 a).

2. Having got ready another chariot, he (i.e. the Purohita or the bridegroom) should make the king or the woman sit down thereon with (the formula), ‘In royal power’ down to the word, ‘in sacrifice’ (Vāj. Saṃh. XX, 10), and with the (verse), ‘I have seized thee’ (ibid. XII, 11).

3. The two beasts that draw the chariot, constitute the sacrificial fee.

4. (This is) the penance.

5. Then (follows) feeding of the Brāhmaṇas.