History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c52.31

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and by the Vājapeya an emperor (*samrāṭ*) and the position of the king is (obtained) first and thereafter of emperor.' On the first day of the bright half of Phālguna the sacrificer undergoes dīkṣā for a soma sacrifice called Pavitra, which follows the procedure of Agniṣṭoma (Lāṭ. IX. 1. 2, Aśv. IX. 3. 2, Kāt. XV. 1. 6). There was difference of opinion as to the number of dīkṣā days (Lāṭ. IX. 1. 8, Kāt. XV. 1. 4). The Abhiṣecanīya ceremony which is the principal among the rites of Rājasūya took place exactly a year after the Pavitra sacrifice was commenced (Lāṭ. IX. 1. 4). At the end of the Abhiṣecanīya the sacrificer did not actually enter into water for the final bath (avabhṛtha), but wearing shoes made of boar-skin he repaired from the sacrificial ground (devayajana) to the water, put into the water black antelope horn or the foot portion of a black antelope skin and returned wearing shoes of black antelope skin (Lāṭ. IX. 1. 23–24).