Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.72

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c36.72

§ 221. Then follows the Investiture, and Announcement. The priest gives him a strong bow with three arrows with the formula "*Protect ye him in front*," etc. After the investiture while the king-elect is standing on the ground over the tiger-skin an Announcement is made,—the Āvid formulæ are called out:^1

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