Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c20.3
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¹ See Ch. XIV below. Jāti, literally, ‘birth,’ is not caste. There were, as we have seen, all castes amongst the republics. Free birth as opposed to slave birth is probably meant by it. Cf. the Vedic *sujāta*, see below Ch. XXV.