The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c13.29

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c13.29

"Food brought from a distance some *purohitas* in the villages eat, many people ask them (the meaning of star constellations, etc.), they castrate animals, (happy) signs they read.
"Also (in the houses of these *purohitas*) there are slaughtered sheep, buffaloes, swine and goats. They are slaughterers, O great king, and yet they call themselves Brâhmaṇas."

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