The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s9.26

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24. See *Manu* 7. 2, which reserves kingship for the kṣatriya, who has duly received the *brāhma-saṃskāra-*. Most commentators do not take this *saṃskāra* to be the rājasūya or another abhiṣeka but the *upanayana*, which any member of the “twice-born” varṇas must undergo (Lingat, *Les Sources du droit*, 234, n. 1).