[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) › c8.52 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.52 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.52 - **Language:** English ### [c8.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.52) ¹ Ricinus shrub. ² Skr. picumanda, Azadirachta Indica. ³ Skr. pàlibhadra, Butea Frondosa. ⁴ That in the passages quoted from the Jātakas, not four but six castes, that is, in addition to the official castes of the Brahmanical theory, the two castes, Caṇḍāla and Pukkusa, reckoned among the mixed castes, are enumerated, has for its reason this, that people felt in the circles from which the verses came, the non-reality of the Vessa and Sudda castes and thereby the two hated classes, whose real existence people could perceive everyday, were added. Our position that the Brahmanical caste theory is present even in the Jâtakas is thereby not modified. - [Previous: c8.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.51) - [Next: c8.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.53) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c8.52) · Pramāṇa