The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.37

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³⁸ See *JB* 2. 183 (Auswahl no. 144) for the meaning of *jana*, “other people.” Cf. also *ṢvB* 1. 7. 3: “Food leaves him, who though fit to eat food yet does not eat food . . . . Especially by the food of the other people (*janyam annam*) he becomes a food-eater.” Caland renders *jana* “die Ferne” or “die Fremde.” It would seem that what was originally meant was the opposite party in the ritual. In the *Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa* passage quoted above, *jana* is explained as vaiśya or bhrātṛvya. *AB* 8. 26. 3 calls the rivals *janyāni* (*sapatnā vai dviṣanto bhrātṛvyā janyāni*). Interesting also is the *janya*, or *janyo mitram*, who participates in the unction ceremony (Heesterman, *Consecration*, 114). In the *Ṛgveda Saṃhitā*, *jānya* and *jáne mitrá* occur in the sense of matchmaker (cf. L. Renou, *Études sur le vocabulaire du Ṛveda* [Pondichéry, 1958], 35) and thus possibly denote affinal relationship. Such a relationship may well be in keeping with the ambivalence of the rivalry and cooperation between the parties.