2010/7/17 L.S. Cousins <selwyn at ntlworld.com>: > >> > True, but that is what we should expect from the Jātaka parallel. > Otherwise you would carry a relic in front on someone's head. Wouldn't we stand on much surer ground, if we assumed that both the narratives, the Mhv's and the Jataka's, are modelled on some real state ceremonial? Artur K.