The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c10.52

c10.52

If the succession was altogether unsettled, recourse was had, perhaps only in some out-of-the way regions, to a strange procedure. Seven days after the death of an heirless king, the Purohita let a festal car, the phussaratha, be driven with the five insignia of royalty placed on it. "It will come to the man who will become the king." The man whom