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²⁹ 1, p. 28f. The consecration ceremony is also described in the *Mahābhārata* (Vir. P. 1XL), *Rāmāyaṇa* (II. 3; 6, 14; 15, IV. 26 20ff), and the *Jātakas* (*Pañcaguru Jātaka*, I No 132, p. 470, *Ayoghara Jātaka*, IV, No 510, p 492; when the subjects, headed by priests, came to see the prince with diverse kinds of auspicious articles; the whole city was decorated, courtiers played and danced all round; priests, generals, merchants and citizens, provincials—all thronged at the palace and made a holiday; the town was decorated on a heavenly style, the prince was placed on a pile of jewels, he was sprinkled from the three conches and an umbrella with its festoons of gold was held over him.