Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.68

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c36.68

The king-elect then puts on a silk underwear, a mantle and a turban or diadem.² Our Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa does not approve of the dressing, and there is that artistic touch in the reason given which was common to the Hindus and the Greeks. "For the limbs being his natural vestments they deprive him of his native bodily form".³

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