The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.86

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87. Chapters 12 and 25, quoted by L. Alsdorf, *Beiträge zur Geschichte von Vegetarismus und Rinderverehrung* (Wiesbaden, 1962), 47f. It is interesting to note that the Jaina monk appears on the place of sacrifice to ask for a share of the sacrificial meal. His upbraiding of the sacrificing brahmins strangely recalls the figure of the "reviler" in the mahāvrata (*PB* 5. 5. 13, see also below, chap. 5, sect. 5). It is tempting to see in the monk's appearance on the place of sacrifice a distant echo of the preclassical pattern of ritual.