[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.s3.33 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.33) 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. - [Previous: c19.s3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.32) - [Next: c19.s3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.34) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.33) · Pramāṇa