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150 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
two upper divisions that there lay the real possibility of the birth of highly endowed persons capable of realising the ideal or ideals and remoulding human civilisation.
In the Dasa-brāhmaṇa-Jātaka, Vidhura, the wise man of the Kuru court, divides the Brāhmaņas into ten categories, classes or types (dasa-brāhmaṇa-jātiyo) and sweepingly criticises them as placed in each category: the Brahmins who went about like physicians (tikicchakasama) with sacks containing sanctified and therefore important medicinal roots and herbs, offering themselves to cure diseases for money. Those who like servants (paricarakasamā) used to ring little bells as they went before "as heralds of kings and their ministers, served as messengers or even followed the calling of wagondrivers. Those who in the garb of ascetics behaved like tax-collectors (niggāhakasamā), determined not to leave the place until something was given to them by way of alms: Those who begged alms in another garb of ascetics with long nails and hairs on the body, etc., and covered with dust and dirt were like diggers of the soil for uprooting the stumps (khāṇughātasamā). Those who like tradesmen (vānijakasamā) used to sell various fruits, planks, wood, sweets, scents, honey and ointment. Those who like the Ambatthas -and the Vessas carried on agricultural trade,.did farming, gave away their daughters for money
