[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985) › c19.s10.20 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s10.20 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s10.20 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.20) 20. Unless we follow Kangle's translation, which renders the crucial phrase \*samagrāḥ śrāvayeyuḥ\* with “they should render accounts in full,” taking \*samagrāḥ\* in the improbable sense of "full (accounts)" as the object of the verb \*śrāvayeyuḥ\*. In that case, we are left in the dark as to the identity of the auditing authority. Since they would then have to "proclaim" (\*śrāvayeyuḥ\*)—not just "render"—their accounts, Kangle's translation leads to the conclusion that the assembled mahāmātras sit in judgment on each other's accounts. Such a procedure obviously would be undesirable, if not down right impossible, from the point of view of proper auditing. - [Previous: c19.s10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.19) - [Next: c19.s10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.21) - [Up: c19.s10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.20) · Pramāṇa