The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s10.47

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45. For this passage, see J. C. Heesterman, *The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration* (The Hague, 1957), 209–11; W. Rau, *Staat und Gesellschaft im alten Indien* (Wiesbaden, 1957), 15. A remote echo of this cycle can still be heard in *ĀpGS* 22. 12ff. Immediately after the rules for the aṣṭakā rites in the cold season, a mantra is prescribed for going out to beg; the text then goes on to explain the rules for mounting a chariot, which should face east.