Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.37

c16.37

This way of taking the passage points to another significant fact that in those days "there was a disposition to let alone the question of Brāhmanhood by birth where a Brāhmanhood of heart and mind existed" [Deussen, *Philosophy of Vedānta*], a breadth of view and catholicity which recognized character as much as caste, and took liberties, when needed, with the social distinctions based on birth.