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²⁷ Vya Bhā, 4 169 In the Darīmukha Jātaka (III, No 378, p 239) this ceremony is called the phussaratha or the festal car ceremony Seven days after the death of an heirless king, the Purohita let a festal car, the phussaratha, be driven accompanied by four-fold army amidst the beating of many hundred drums It was expected to go to man destined to be the king The man whom the car singled out by stopping near him was made king, also Mahā-anaka Jātaka (No. 534, VI, p 39), also see Kathāsaritsāgara, Vol V, Ch. lxv, pp. 175-7, note on Pañcadvyādhavāsa, J A O S, Vol 33, pp. 158-66.