[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.s11.17 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.17 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.17 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.17) 18. See G. J. Held, \*The Mahābhārata: An Ethnological Study\* (Leiden, 1936), 89–97. Held derives the \*varṇa\* system from a clan system, or more precisely, from “a circulative marriage system with a four-clan arrangement (ibid., 95). - [Previous: c19.s11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.16) - [Next: c19.s11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.18) - [Up: c19.s11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.17) · Pramāṇa