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Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2523

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.2523

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² J. iv. 363; they were called brahmins by courtesy *vohāravasena* (ibid., 366). According to the *Mānavadhammasāstra*, they were not sprung from Kṣatriya father and a slave (presumably Śūdra) mother, as given in the *Ambaṭṭha Sutta*, but from a brahmin father and a Vaisya mother.

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