Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c37.80

c37.80

§ 234. The *Brāhmaṇas* do not recognise such a thing as hereditary succession. Each king must be consecrated as such and no reference is made to the previous successions in the rituals. This was due to the elective origin of the Vedic kingship. In fact, as in theory, Hindu kingship had not yet become hereditary in the time of the Brāhmaṇas. The inception