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¹ For the nomenclature of the Buddhists, cf. Fick, *Die sociale Gliederung in nordöstlichen Indien zu Buddha’s Zeit* (1897), pp. 19 f. and 162 f. Cf. also Senart, *Les Castes dans l’Inde*, where the contention is upheld that castes (so-called) are really *social orders*. Fick’s expression *Zu Buddha’s Zeit* is used with the freedom which characterises almost all Buddhist scholars when writing of Buddhist literature. He means no more by it than early Buddhist literature, and under that head are included the Jātakas which, in their present form, are centuries later than Buddha’s time.