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10. On the problem of ahiṃsā, cf. L. Alsdorf, *Beiträge zur Geschichte von Vegetarismus und Rinderverehrung in Indien* (Wiesbaden, 1962); H.-P. Schmidt, "The Origin of *ahiṃsa*," in *Mélanges d'Indianisme à la mémoire de Louis Renou* (Paris, 1968), 625–55; also my review of Alsdorf, in *Indo-Iranian Journal* 9 (1960): 147–49. For the classical Mīmāṃsā view denying ahiṃsā ultimate authority, which it reserves for the Vedic injunction of animal sacrifice, see W. Halbfass, *Śankara und Kumārila, Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik* 9 (Reinbek, 1983), 2–9. For our purpose, the main point is the unresolved and indeed insoluble conflict between Vedic sacrifice and ahiṃsā.