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Tradition is characterized by the inner conflict of atemporal order and temporal shift rather by resilience and adaptiveness. It is this unresolved conflict that provides the motive force we perceive as the flexibility of tradition. Indian civilization offers a particularly clear case of this dynamic inner conflict. Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than in the Vedic ritual texts and their curiously contradictory place in Indian civilization, at once hallowed and neglected, like the king who is honored by all and obeyed by none. They are the scriptural repository of the revealed sruti and as such purport to be the core and foundation of the dharma. Most of the following essays are therefore concerned specifically with the srauta corpus or refer to it.
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The Inner Conflict of Tradition : Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship and Society
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