Brahmins as Kingmakers: A glimpse into political scenario in ancient India

If you read Indian history, you would often come across stories in which a king, wanting to coronate himself, or an ambitious warlord, wanting to transform himself into a king, would invite Brahmins from a particular region to consecrate him. The reason (more often than not) was that the local Brahmins would not support him. Unless he got Brahmin support, he could not legitimise himself as a king. This role of Brahmin peaked from the 3rd century