Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t5.22
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t5.22
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c4.t5.22
The ministers formed a class by themselves. In the court of the king they are always distinguished from other classes—the Khattiyas and Brāhmaṇas, gahapatis and others,¹ This does not mean that no Khattiya or a Brāhmaṇa could be an amacca. It only means that the ministers did not belong to any particular caste. It means that the amaccakula was a separate group of people as against the Brāhmaṇas and the commoners (gahapatis).