Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s3.1

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c7.s3.1

THE law-books and the Epic synchronize with an epoch when the Hindu world was definitely constituted. They rest on a twofold foundation of productions still more ancient : a stratum of sacerdotal literature, and below that the treasure of the Vedic hymns—that collection which, in the narrower terminology of the West, is called specifically the Veda. It is necessary for us to go back to this earlier stratum.

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