History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.120.4

v3.c40.120.4

(37. 4) it is stated that when a king has undergone a solemn coronation ceremony the *purohita* places in his hand a vessel of surā. Aśvapati, king of Kekaya, proudly declares in the Chāndogya Up. V. 11. 5 to the learned brāhmaṇas that came to him for the lore about Vaiśvānara 'in my country there is no thief, no miser, no *madyapa* (drinker of intoxicants), none who has not kept the sacred fires, none who is not learned, no man of loose character; whence can there be a woman of loose character in my country?' In Chāndogya V. 10. 9 one who drinks surā is enumerated among the five grave sinners.