The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.15
The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.15
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c10.15
¹ The same view is found expressed in very similar words in the Lalita Vistara Ch. III: “The Bodhisattva was not born in lower families (hînakuleshu), Caṇḍâla families or in the families of flutemakers or wheelwrights (rathakara), or in Pukkasa families. Rather he has appeared only in two castes (kuladvaye), in the Brâhmaṇa caste and the Kshatriya caste. When the Brâhmaṇas are held in great esteem in the world he appears in Brâhmaṇa families; when the Kshatriyas stand in high esteem, he is born in Kshatriya families. Now-a-days, their monks hold the Kshatriyas in the highest esteem; therefore, the Bodhisattvas appear in the Kshatriya caste.