[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) › c7.5 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c7.5 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c7.5 - **Language:** English ### [c7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7.5) gift (\*dakṣiṇā\*);² how this is to be effected is not stated. Contradictions such as these, where the system breaks, offer a chance to come nearer to the relation between abstract system and reality as well as to the development of the ritual. A case in point is that of the severed head. - [Previous: c7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7.4) - [Next: c7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7.6) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7.5) · Pramāṇa