The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.33
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.33
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34. “Das vedische Opfer ist durch alle wesentlichen Einzelheiten seiner Form und seines Verlaufs definiert als ein stilisiertes Gastmahl” (P. Thieme, “Vorzarathustriches bei den Zarathustriern,” *Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlämdischen Geschicte* 107 (1957): 90. This refers to a banquet offered to the gods, but it is also offered to the brahmins, who are the “human gods.” Elsewhere, Thieme suggests that the dakṣiṇā is a “Gastgeschenk” (*Der Fremdling im Rigveda* [Leipzig, 1938], 27; previously, *Indo-Iranian Journal* 3 (1959): 255, n. 36). I have doubted this interpretation, but I now recognize that the rendering “Gastgeschenk” seems to touch the essence of the matter.