The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c10.47
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c10.47
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⁵¹ This is what gives knowledge in the form of the Veda its transcendent authority. Therefore, too, this knowledge is cut off from the world over which it holds ultimate authority but to which, for the same reason, it cannot relate. This essay is based on a paper read at the Conference on the Origins of the Axial Age and Its Diversity, Bad Homburg, 4–8 January 1983.