Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.193

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c7.193

politician whereas M., Y. etc. are dilettantes. Regarding the 15 kinds of slavery Meyer says that as Buddhaghoṣa mentions only four kinds of slaves, nothing can be decided from this fact (p. 88 f.). The 21 kinds of livelihood cannot be of any significance because Indians were interested in magic from very early times and by this classification Nār. has tried to ascertain what is magically pure and what is not (p. 93). Many other things in Nār. which appear to be of late origin, are interpolations according to Meyer.

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