The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.17

c9.17

Another solution was simply to have the hotṛ priest alone recite the caturhotṛ formulas in their unified classical form. Finally, according to some authorities, the brahmodya is subsumed in the immediately preceding *mānasa* liturgy, performed in mind only, preserving (and maximizing) from the verbal contest only the element of silence.