The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.46

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⁴⁵ The sacrifice, of course, involves a sacrificial meal. Hence its character of a “stilisiertes Gastmahl” (P. Thieme, “Vorzarathustrisches bei den Zarathustriern,” *Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenlämdische Geschicte* 107 [1957]: 90). The sacrificial meal as a communal feast was, however, broken up and eliminated from the śrauta ritual. See J. C. Heesterman, “Veda and Society,” *Studia Orientalia* 50 (1981): 50–64.