The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s4.75

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70. Thus when *ŚB* 3. 8. 3. 28–29 characterizes offerings from the head as asuric and therefore prohibits them, this seems to indicate a rejection not of “asuric”religion, but of the dualistic pattern in which devas and asuras contend. The rival, the asura, is then excluded.