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till their old age only on the invitations to their homes auspiciously. These hymns were really in the form of prey in original nature, without finding any material requirements at that time while their prey to gods, prajapathi and aryamaan.
“43 So may Prajāpati bring children forth to us; may Aryaman adorn us till old age come nigh. Not inauspicious enter thou thy husband’s house: bring blessing to our bipeds and our quadrupeds.”
The composers’ wish was seen intensely in the following hymn that they wanted the bride to be blessed with ten sons and adding the husband into one of them as the son to her in looking after his needs as eleven in the number, to indra, which means, the society was experiencing the negligence of the husbands in the family after passing of certain age with his children in the family.
“45 O Bounteous Indra, make this bride blest
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