The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s6.44

c19.s6.44

34. The word *itthaṃvid* recalls the well-known phrase (found especially in the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa*) *ya evaṃ veda*, "who knows thus," namely, the connections or identifications of the cosmic with the ritual elements. In our passage, the knowledge does not seem to refer to identifications so much as to antithetical relations, essential to the verbal contest.