The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.39

c19.s7.39

39. See the passages translated by Bodewitz, *Evening and Morning Offering*, 155–7. Though these passages do not directly refer to expiation but the subduing of death—equated with the fire—by the food offering, the link with the expiation of the sin of “killing” the food can hardly be overlooked. These passages keep strictly within the compass of the ritual and its cosmic mechanism without dealing with the worldy matter of food and its provenance.