"Jacobi points out that the Grhya Sutras preserve a well-known custom according to which the husband points out the polestar (called dhruva 'fixed') to his newlywed wife and exhorts her never to forsake her home just as the polestar never changes its position. He concludes that these sutras preserve a memory of the ancient time when the polestar appeared stationary."
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in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
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