Thaiththiri:ya A:ranyaka III (the Uttara-na:ra:yana anuva:ka of the Purusha Su:ktham)
Purusha Su:ktham — Sri: anuva:ka portion
पुरुषसूक्त-श्र्यनुवाकः
Rishi Na:ra:yana (traditional attribution)·Vedic (Yajurveda recension)·5 verses·Recited as the closing portion of Purusha Su:ktham at every Vaishnava yajna; daily morning sandhya:; every samska:ra; at the conclusion of Vishnu Sahasrana:ma pa:ra:yana
The Vedic anuva:ka in which Sri: and Hri: are explicitly named as the two consorts of the Supreme Purusha. These verses provide the sruthi foundation for the Sri:vaishnava doctrine that Sri: is eternally inseparable from Sri:man Na:ra:yana — that the Lord is never conceived apart from the Mother.
The Sri: anuva:ka of the Purusha Su:ktham — the concluding verses preserved in the Uttara-na:ra:yana portion of Thaiththiri:ya A:ranyaka III — is the place where Vedic sruthi itself names Sri: as the consort of the Supreme Purusha. Within these verses the worshipper utters the foundational invocation hri:scha te lakshmi:scha patnyau — "Hri: and Lakshmi: are Thy two consorts" — establishing in sruthi the eternal pairing of Sri:man Na:ra:yana with the Mother. For the Sri:vaishnava Samprada:ya there is no scriptural passage of greater doctrinal weight regarding Lakshmi:'s ontological inseparability from the Lord.
These five verses form the closing portion of every Vaishnava yajna, recited after the body of the Purusha Su:ktham and before the final sva:ha:. They are the Vedic warrant for the entire purushaka:ra teaching of Bhagavad Sri: Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya: that Sri: is not subordinate, not secondary, not a divine creation, but the eternal pathni: of the Purusha, and that any approach to the Lord that bypasses Her is unsanctioned by the Veda itself. The Pa:nchara:thra A:gamas extend this teaching by naming three consorts — Sri:de:vi:, Bhu:de:vi:, and Ni:la:de:vi: — with this anuva:ka as the sruthi prama:na. The complete text and traditional commentaries are available through the external sources below.