Public Administration in Ancient India c5.14

c5.14

¹ Dr. Muir, many years ago, collected a number of passages from the Vedas in his Original Sanskrit Texts, which point to the existence of distinctions within the Āryan community in the Vedic Period. The fact that the social divisions of the early Persians were very similar to the castes of India leads us to think that the beginning of the system can be traced back to the period when the Indo-Āryans had not yet separated from their kinsmen, the Perso-Āryans.