Local Government in Ancient India c9.48

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Sutta, 40¹; *Jāt.* I. 98.² 194.³ 312⁴; II. 79⁵; III. 376⁶). But, as we have seen, so far from their being any exclusiveness in ordinary intercourse between nobles, priests, and commoners, who were making or had made fortunes in trade, we frequently find the sons of burghers the playmates and school-fellows of princes and young Brāhmans. Thus the recognition of the dignity of all labour was a levelling influence promoting a social equality and brotherhood which subdued the pride of caste.