The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.20

c10.20

One cannot help noticing, while reading this paragraph, the influence of a subjective bias on the part of the Buddhistic author; it is not to be supposed that orthodox Brâhmaṇas, proud of their caste, recognised even in Buddhistic lands a Khattiya excommunicated from, and despised by his caste as a Brâhmaṇa and treated him as such; such cases may occasionally have taken place; in its general form, Ambaṭṭha's admission does not seem to me at all acceptable.