The ceremony of consecrating a king, the abbiseka, appears to be depicted in a few scenes where a brahman is sprinkling someone with a brush in one hand and a shallow basin with holy water in the other. The most indistinct are IBa 216

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, where the brahman is coming towards a royal personage but there is no sign of what happens, and Ia 50

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, the marriage of Cakyamuni, where at any rate the new garments and wreaths suitable for a consecration are put ready. On IBa 275

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we can see that a servant is bringing the royal tiara; but IIB 18

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is by far the most remarkable. The king is sitting in the middle without any adornment, his hair hanging loose, between two standing officials one of whom performs the sprinkling with water out of a shell, the second, a brahman (the others are too indistinct to be classified),holdingajar which he is emptying over the royal head. A third person standing holds another long-shaped jug and a fourth has some object in his hand too worn-away to be identified. Courtiers kneeling at the side hold ready the garments on trays with all the ornaments that belong to the dress of kings. This scene should be certainly noted as an authentic picture of the abhiseka of a Hindu-Javanese king).

Brush and bowl we saw too on Ia 114

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, but there the brushis thicker and is not in the hand of a brahman but of one of the important citizens of a town where Cakyamuni is being entertained at a banquet. Every where else the sprinkling is done by brahmans with a brush like a shaving-brush. We see them on IBa I 16

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at the homage of a stupa and again on IBa 1

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performing some rite to a young child. There again are two of them, one with the brush and shell, the other pouring some liquid over the child's head from a jug.