[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.s7.10 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.10 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.10) 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. - [Previous: c19.s7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.9) - [Next: c19.s7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.11) - [Up: c19.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.10) · Pramāṇa