Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s3.1

c48.s3.1

§ 54. This comparatively small group comprises a number of bodies which, though not so directly concerned with the every-day life of the masses as those dealt with in the preceding paragraphs, exercise functions which are intimately connected with certain phases of the domestic or religious observances of at least the upper and middle classes of the Brahmanic community in most parts of the country, and stand immediately, as it were, between the village and the specially urban castes.