The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.2

c14.2

We have placed the *purohita*, on account of his often purely worldly position, among the officers of the king but have emphasised the fact that the proper source of his political power is to be sought in his being a Brâhmaṇa, in his belonging to the Brâhmaṇa caste; with this we shall now deal minutely.