Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c37.44

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c37.44

The "vow-holder" steps down from the throne and puts on shoes of boar-skin,¹ and takes a symbolical short drive in a chariot drawn by four horses.² This seems to be the origin of the Hindu pageantry of the coronation procession, which assumes gorgeousness in the age when the Rāmāyaṇa was composed.

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Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit