[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c14.37 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.37 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.37 - **Language:** English ### [c14.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.37) That this Brâhmaṇa without property and without desires is even for the Buddhistic narrator a thoroughly honourable person, appears from numerous passages of the Jâtakas, for example, from the Saccamkira Jâtaka (I. 323 sq.), where with a hard-hearted and cruel prince an amiable and sympathetic Brâhmaṇa ascetic is contrasted. The frequent occurrence of \*samaṇa\* and \*brâhmaṇa\* together shows that the homeless ascetic and the Brâhmaṇa were for the Buddhist identical, just as for him the attributes of a homeless ascetic, propertylessness and desirelessness, inhere in the notion of a "true" Brâhmaṇa. - [Previous: c14.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.36) - [Next: c14.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.38) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.73) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c14.37) · Pramāṇa