[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c36.26 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.26 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.26 - **Language:** English ### [c36.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.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 - [Previous: c36.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.25) - [Next: c36.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.27) - [Up: c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.26) · Pramāṇa