Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.26

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c36.26

As the formulas are already prescribed in the preliminary Vājapeya, they have not been repeated in the Rāja-sūya. The same principle of completing the spiritual self of the king-elect is extended by other schools of the Yajur-Veda who make the king-elect do worship also to his other wives of lower castes, Vāvātā and Parivṛiktī.³ In the Aśvamedha ceremony even the wife of the lower Śūdra caste (*Pālāgalā*) takes part.⁴

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