Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s4.25

c7.s4.25

It is clear, I think, that these terms are derived from the ancient formula, a technical and academic derivation. The social order with which they are associated is not merely the spontaneous and organic extension of the situation reflected by the Veda ; like the words in which it is embodied, it represents a carefully thought-out system, adapted to conditions either entirely new or at least very different from those whence the primitive triple division originated.