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holy rivers and of the four seas, seven kinds of holy 
earth, the sacred conch shell, a white umbrella, and 
white Chamars. The horses and elephants used in 
connection with the coronation ceremony were also 
white. Yudhistir was then made to sit on a throne of 
gold, and other members of the royal family sat on seats 
made of ivory, and close by sat the king’s spiritual 
euide and other sages. The king was now requcsted to 
touch such auspicious articles as corn, white flowers, 
swastika, gold, silver and jewels. The king’ Ss ministers 
and other ‘high functionaries were now brought before 
him by the royal priest and they all paid their homage 
to their sovereign. The sacred fire was then kindled, 
the king and queen sat in front of the ney fire on seats 
covered over with tiger's skin, and made offerings to the 
fire. Shri Krishna then got up, took in his hand the 
sacred conch-shell, spiel was filled with holy water, 
sprinkled the water over the heads of the king and 
queen and said: “I sprinkle this holy water over you 
to indicate that from this day you have become the 
paramount sovereign of Bharat Varsha.” At this time 
dhundubt and other musical instruments were sounded, 
drums were beaten, the king’s bards sang the praise of 
the king and wished him victory and long life.” 
In Bengal every marriage conducted according to 
Hindu ceremonial, includes the placing of chank- 
bangles, lacquered red, upon the bride’s wrists. An 
iron bangle placed on the left wrist is also essential to 
the ceremony. Elsewhere this particular marriage cus- 
tom is scarcely ever practised, but sufficient instances 
~ are recorded among a few widely scattered castes and 
caste-sections of the existence of a_ similar marriage 
custom elsewhere to tempt us to believe that 
at one time it was the general custom of all fully 
Hinduised castes throughout India. Finds of frag- 
ments of chank-bangles in places where the use 
of these ornaments is non-existent at the present day 
strengthen the theory. Legendary lore can also be 
quoted i in support. For instance, among the Balijas of 
Telugu districts, who there constitute the chief trading 
caste, a legend is current (Thurston, I, p. 137) that “on 
one occasion Siva wanted his consort Parve ati to appear 
before him in all her glory. But, when she stood before 
