[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.s4.63 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s4.63 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s4.63 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s4.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4.63) 58. In the White Yajurveda, the place of the enemy is taken by an \*anaddhāpuruṣa\* (Eggeling: “shamman”) to whom the mantra is addressed and who accompanies the procession (\*ŚB\* 6. 3. 3. 4; 4. 4. 14). He is said to be the substitute the gods saw for the human victim, and the meaning of the word is somebody “who pleases neither gods, nor the fathers, nor men” (\*ŚB\* 6. 3. 1. 24). I am inclined to view this in the light of \*MS\* 4. 8. 6 (cf. \*KS\* 29. 4): \*Vídevo vā́ ījānā́h, sádevó ʾnījānāḥ\*, “The gods are absent from one who has offered sacrifice, they are with him who has not offered sacrifice.” In my opinion, the anaddhāpuruṣa represents the “host party” that has delivered “the head.” (On this word, cf. also D. S. Ruegg, “Védique \*addhā́\*,” \*Journal Asiatique\*, 1955, 167. - [Previous: c19.s4.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4.62) - [Next: c19.s4.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4.64) - [Up: c19.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4) ## Linked texts (3) - [Kāṭhakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*kathaka.29.4) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani.4.8.6) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.6.3.3.4) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s4.63) · Pramāṇa