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⁵ p. 33 , the Dhanasākha Jātaka (III, No. 353, p. 150), refers to an ambitious purohita who helps the king through a sacrificial ceremony to acquire a city which is difficult to conquer. He proposes to his lord to pluck out the eyes of the thousand captured kings, to rip up their bellies, take out the entrails and give a bali-offering to a god , see also Fick, op. cit., ch. vii, 'The House Priest of the King."