Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t4.54

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t4.54

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⁷ J., I, p. 343; III, p. 45; also III, pp. 159 ff. Cf. the succinct but beautiful remarks of Hopkins as regards the Epic *purohita*: "In the latest portion it is pitiful to see the degradation of the priest. He grovels for gifts. His rapacity breaks every barrier that morality, religion, and philosophy had striven to raise between his soul and the outer world. He becomes a mere 'periculorum proemiorumque ostentator'": op. cit., 158.

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