The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c9.50

c9.50

For it is in the spiritual region that we have to seek the cause of this asceticism; the practice of world-renunciation, the retirement into the homeless condition is only the outward expression of that striving for knowledge and for emancipation which dominated large circles of society of eastern India in Buddha’s time. Neither the study of the holy scripture nor occupation with religious things in general was in that time restricted to the learned Brahmanas; other classes and professions took part in this search for truth, in the solution of the highest questions of metaphysics; among these we have in the front line the Khattiyas.