Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c38.20

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c38.20

The oath is called by the Mahā-Bhārata a Śruti, which denotes that the oath was based on Vedic text. As the Aitareya enjoins that the oath should be repeated 'with faith' (*saha-śraddhayā*), so here it had to be pronounced without any mental reservation:

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