[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.s3.58 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.58 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.58 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.58) 59. This would seem to be reason why the \*Mīmāṃsā\*, after discussing the point, decides that the dakṣiṇā is not a gift but a salary for services rendered (see Charles Malamoud, “Terminer le sacrifice,” in \*Le Sacrifice dans l’Inde ancienne\*, ed. Madeline Biardeau and Charles Malamoud \[Paris, 1976\], 155–204, esp. 179–82). This view, which makes the service and its payment an incidental transaction, “desacralizes” the dakṣiṇā and thereby neutralizes the danger the gift holds for the brahmin’s purity and independence. - [Previous: c19.s3.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.57) - [Next: c19.s3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.59) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.58) · Pramāṇa