The Mantras of marriage accomplish their object of bringing about the indissoluble union of marriage at the seventh step. The maiden becomes the wife of him to whom the gift is actually made with water.
पाणिग्रहणमन्त्राणां निष्ठा स्यात् सप्तमे पदे। भार्या स्याद् यस्य चाद्भिः प्रदीयते।