[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.s3.14 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.14 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.14 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.14) 14. See \*ĀpŚS\* 22. 1. 11–16, which deals with the twelve-day ritual, celebrated either as an ahīna or as a sattra. Though the ahīna, according to classical theory, is performed by one yajamāna assisted by sixteen officiants, it is striking that the \*Āpastamba Dharmasūtra\* and \*Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā\* consider the execution by a group of dīkṣitas assisted by non-dīkṣita officiants as the proper characteristic of the ahīna (cf. also \*MānŚS\* 7. 2. 1. 3). For the invited brahmin’s question whether or not it is an ahīna, see \*ĀpŚS\* 10. 1. 3 with Caland’s note and W. Caland and V. Henry, \*L’Agniṣṭoma\* (Paris, 1906–7), 4. See also Heesterman, “Vrātya and Sacrifice”, 31–34. - [Previous: c19.s3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.13) - [Next: c19.s3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.15) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3) ## Linked texts (2) - [Āpastambaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.apastamba.22.1.11) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Mānavaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.manava.7.2.1.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.14) · Pramāṇa