The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.38

c18.38

As the last of the despised professions the occupation of a barber (nahâpitasippa) is mentioned in the Suttavibhaṅga. In this business, we do not look for the reason of its lowness to any ethnical relations: the duties connected with it and which are to some extent dirty show the barber *ipso facto* as occupying a low position and place him almost in the same line with the temple-cleaning Pukkusas.²