The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c7.25

c7.25

For these reasons—so it seems to me at least—the picture of Indian society, as we obtain it from the Pali texts and principally, from the Jâtakas, is more life-like and true than that which the Brâhmaṇas through their one-sided exaltation of their own caste have given us and so we may hope to get some material from our sources which can throw light upon the caste-relations in eastern India.