The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s6.7

c9.s6.7

Nay, the *Taittirīya* is quite aware of the Vaiśya's special rôle in the social economy. We are told that the Vaiśyas were "more numerous than the others, for they were created after the most numerous of the gods." It is implied that the Brāhmaṇas and the Kṣatriyas who are not superior to the Vaiśyas have however in point of numbers to yield the palm to the latter. And as the Vaiśya represents the factor "to be eaten" like the cow, another item created along with him, the importance of the economic element appears to have been seized by the authors of the *Taittirīya* school or period.