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142 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
or master and dāsa or slave, there being impassable barrier at all between the classes. The early texts of Jainism and D dhism do not give us any insight into the sco systom of the Andhakas, Damiļas and .. milakkhas before they adopted the Indo-Alby social scheme.
It will be seen that the social grades defined in the Indo-Aryan social schema all apparently based upon occupationsm s such, they might be taken to deno u ses (senās), or even trade-guilds (Pūgas). Sasthan castes or races. The Brahmanista vart for the conception of society as an en d with the mouth, the arms, the things feet as its four important functia
, none superior, none inferior, there wg of the entire organism departe che harmonious working of all thi
The mouth as symbol of cult
o n is represented by the Brāh
parms as symbol of military strength ***Yaministrative capacity by the Khattiya; Phare thighs as symbol of wealth and economic prosperity by the Vessa; and the feet as symbol of menial work by the Sudda,2 the service beintendered by all the four in four different
the Brahmanist, the society with its fourt h was a natural order, and as 1 Majhima, ti,
dāso hoti, dāso hutud ayyo hoti. . Barua, A History on
Indian Philosophy, p. 33.
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