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# The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c20.2

The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c20.2

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### [c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c20.2)

| | PAGE. |  
| —engaged in agriculture and cattle-breeding ... | 241sq |  
| —their share in administration ... | 142, 144 |  
| —in civil occupations ... | 241sq |  
| —in the king's service ... | 223sq., 240, 241 |  
| —" proper " and " worldly " ... | 193 |  
| —as exorcists ... | 236 |  
| —greed of the, ... | 187 |  
| —of Magadha ... | 215, 216 |  
| — manifoldness of professions followed by the,... | 10f |  
| —as king's ministers ... | 144 |  
| —hailing from the north-west ... | 213, 214 |  
| —their duties ... | 25, 191, 195 |  
| —wealth of the, ... | 210, 242, 245 |  
| —morality of the, ... | 189, 198 |  
| —their exemption from taxes ... | 212 |  
| —as dream-readers ... | 224-25, 230 |  
| —their immuunity from capital punishment ... | 212 |  
| —their privileges ... | 209sq. |  
| —as fortune-tellers ... | 227, 231 |  
| —worldly ... | 212sq. |  
| —their relationship with the Buddhist monks ... | 249 |  
| —presents to, ... | 210 |  
| Brâhmaṇa caste, contradictions noticed in the,... | 248 |  
| —super iority of the, ... | 10, 11 |  
| —its division into sub-castes ... | 192f |  
| Brâhmaṇa's daughters, poor ... | 210 |  
| Brâhmaṇa villages ... | 181f, 241f |  
| Brahmarsi, land of ... | 11 |  
| Branches of learning ... | 93, 202, 202f |  
| Buddha ... | 14sq., 85, 89, 137, 209, 233f |  
| —was a khattiya ... | 86, 91 |  
| —was no social reformer ... | 32, 335 |  
| Bühler ... | 149f, 150f, 162f, 203f |  
| Butcher, Brâhmaṇa ... | 10f |

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