The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c11.30

c11.30

The unresolved tension not only affected the social world. Vedic ritualism was also pried open to give way to other but never definitive solutions. It could either follow out the line of otherworldly individualism or it could turn back to the world in an attempt to encompass it. Indeed, both roads were followed.