Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.18

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c41.18

The Paura-Jānapada as one body again wait to take part in the Abhisheka (consecration) ceremony.² Although the whole body was taken to be present, only the Chiefs or 'Presidents' of the sections were in fact present in person.³ We find only the Vriddhas of the whole of Pañchāla country taking part in the ceremony at Kānyakubja, as Dharma-Pāla's copper-plate records⁴. It is to the ladies of the Chiefs of the Śreṇis that the king offers salutation after the coronation ceremony.⁵

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