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# The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c8.s3.2

The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c8.s3.2

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### [c8.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c8.s3.2)

\<!-- Note marker ³⁶ has no footnote text on this page --\> vitality of life in the depths of the waters. After this vitality has reached its destructive acme in the deluge, life, recreated and expanded through Iḍā has to admit the breaking asunder, the rending apart of Iḍā. In order to perpetuate life, the new ritual order of the universe established after the flood must still concede a place, however surreptitiously, to evil and destruction.

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