Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.50

c14.50

This shows that the life of a *Sannyāsī* was open to persons of all castes, because the *Sannyāsī*, in renouncing the world, and all social ties, was beyond the rules of caste. This also points to the liberality of Hinduism which makes no distinctions of caste in the life spiritual.