Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.390

v2.c4.s7.390

¹⁷¹ The Indian theories of the origin of caste are merely religious or philosophical, and have no value. See for them, Rv. x. 90 (which is repeated in other Saṃhitās); Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vii. 1, 1, 4 et seq.; ibid., iv. 3, 10, 1-3 = Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xvii. 5 = Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xiv. 28-30; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, viii. 4, 3, 1 et seq. For the origin of the Brahmins, see Av. iv. 6, 1; xv. 9, 1; of the Rājanya, Av. xv. 8, 1; Taittirīya Saṃhitā, ii. 4, 13, 1 et seq.; Muir, 1², 8 et seq.; Zimmer, op. cit., 217-220. The most important collection of texts on caste are those of Muir, Sanskrit Texts, 1², and of Weber, Indische Studien, 10, where practically all the data of the Brāhmaṇas are extracted; there have to be added only the data of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, which are merely confirmatory of those at the Taittirīya and Kāṭhaka Saṃhitās. The Epic materials concerning caste are given by Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 13, who has also analyzed the caste relations of the Mānavadharmaśāstra in The Mutual Relation of the Four Castes according to the Mānavadharmaśāstra. Cf. also Ludwig, Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 212 et seq.; Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 185 et seq.; Senart, Les Castes dans l'Inde; Barth, Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 1894, 75 et seq.; Jolly, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 50, 507 et seq.; Oldenberg, ibid., 51, 267-290, a valuable criticism of Senart's views; von Schroeder, Indiens Literatur und Cultur, 152 et seq.; 425 et seq.; Schlagintweit, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft,