[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.s3.71 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.71 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.71 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.71) 72. By interiorization I do not mean to suggest a dichotomy between “external” and “internal” sacrifice or the replacement of the former by the latter. The ritual act is both, as is shown, e. g., by \*ŚB\* 10. 4. 3. 9, where the agnicayana ritual is both “internal” knowledge (\*vidyā\*) and “external” act. The differentiation arose as a result of the ritual’s interiorization and could be valid only from the point of view of the individualized sacrifice (cf. J. F. Staal, \*Advaita and Neoplatonism\* \[Madras 1961\], 71f.) - [Previous: c19.s3.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.70) - [Next: c19.s3.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.72) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3) ## Linked texts (1) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.10.4.3.9) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s3.71) · Pramāṇa