The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha’s time

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The introductory narratives are although they relate to the time of Buddha and go back to the older portions of the Pali canon manfestly composed after the beginning of the Chritian era ; the conditions described in the paccupannavatthu the life of the cloister which is potrayed with the minutest detail and regulated by precise rules the relation between the laymen and the confeder [...] 139 General view of ministers Their caste The adviser of the king in worldly and spiritual things The leader of the army The minister ofXV justice—The surveyor The corn measurer The chariot-driver—The superintendent of the king's treasury and the supervisor of wares— The gate-keeper—The town sentinel—Th.; excutioner The superintendents of villages. [...] The It is beyond the scope of my problem which is only concerned with the condition of a particular period to examine in detail the question of the origin of the castes and especially of the influence which the institution of family has upon tho building up of caste. [...] People joined with the already current theory another and that was the theory of mixed castes."6 Acting upon this people began to look upon only the children by properly wedded women of the same caste as belonging to the caste of their father and the children resulting from the union of different castes as mixed castes and this in the followin7 way: the higher the caste of the mother and the lo [...] To these mixed castes professions were assigned with as much strictness as in the case of the fou'r official castes ; for instance to the Si toS was assigned the work of a cart-driver to the Ambashtha the medical profession to the MAgdha trade to the Nishada the killing of fish to the Pukkasa the capturing and killing of CP O the cave-dwelling animals to the -.) Canda.las the carrying

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Preface	i-xvii	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Preface to the English Edition	i-iii	D.R. Bhandarkar	View
Chapter I Introduction	1-16	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter II General View of the Castes	17-59	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter III The Homeless Ascetics	60-78	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter IV The Ruling Class	79-96	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter V The Head of the State	97-138	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter VI The King’s Officers	139-163	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter VII The House Priest of the King	164-179	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter VIII The Brahmanas	180-250	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter IX The Leading Middle Class Families	251-266	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter X The Guilds of Tradesmen and Manufacturers	267-285	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter XI. Casteless Professions	286-313	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Chapter XII. The Despised Castes	314-336	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View
Index of Names and Topics	337-i	Richard Fick, Shishirkumar Maitra	View

The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha’s time

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