[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.s7.46 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.46 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s7.46 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.46) 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. - [Previous: c19.s7.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.45) - [Next: c19.s7.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.47) - [Up: c19.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s7.46) · Pramāṇa