AVABHṚTHAM . The bath taken at the end of a sacri- fice. “Then all the Kṣatriya Kings approached Dharma- tanūja (Dharmaputra) who had completed successfully, under the protection of the Mighty Lord of the bow, the cudgel and the wheel, the great sacrifice of the Rāja- sūya (imperial inauguration) and taken the avabhṛta- snāna (the bath at the end of the sacrifice).” (Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 45, Stanzas 40, 41).