1 Lustration of arms, a kind of military and religious cere- mony performed by kings or gene- rals of armies in the month of Āśvina before they took the field; (it was, so to say, a general purification of the king's Purohita, the ministers, and all the various component parts of the army, together with the arms and implements of war, by means of sacred Mantras); R. 4. 25, 17. 12; N. 1. 144.

2 Waving lights before...