The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.8

c10.8

¹ Even in the epics the rule holds that younger persons or persons of the same age can be addressed "thou," but that a man must address his superior (older) neither by 'thou' nor by his real name. Mhbh, XII 193·25, twaṃkāraṃ nāmadheyaṃ ca jyeṣṭhānāṃ parivarjayet. Cf. Hopkins l.c.p. 25 note.