[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) › c9.33 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.33 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.33 - **Language:** English ### [c9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.33) This is elaborately enacted in the rājasūya. The king, seated on his throne and surrounded by the four chief officiants and the office bearers, addresses each of the priests: “O brahmán. To which the priests answer:“Thou, O king, art brahmán.”⁵⁴ The scene recalls exactly the brahmodya in the caturhotṛ formulas at the end of the last day of the ten-day period.⁵⁵ Though we find here no “reviler” or vituperative utterances,⁵⁶ the idea of contest—chariot race, cattle raid, game of dice—is not very far away. - [Previous: c9.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.32) - [Next: c9.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.34) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.33) · Pramāṇa