The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c8.90

c8.90

Consequently, we cannot speak of any rule relating specially to persons having a common table which excludes lower castes¹; on the other hand, there can be no doubt that prescriptions which forbade contact with food touched by the impure, and specially, with the leavings of their table, and punished transgression, existed and too often showed themselves effective.