1 4 PAN JAB CASTES. I
2 1 1 • TliTia tlipv ceased to be wholly priests and a i
3 the semWanee of sacred learning. Th^ t°.jy/''^|^^ '^ ^^^^ means of preserving !
4 large propo^t;on of them l-^-7,"-,;';^^7ttro.e L to suhstitute"^ Levltieal
5 its overwhelming influence to the bodv at '"^Vj g^^,^^. „, ,ather perhaps
6 :s-ri^^i«?nfthe?»^ ;
7 of occupation fi-om descent - ^^-/-^J\,~ T^o not mean that the ,
8 which collectively f"^t't^^t''l^^tiri.hthev thus turned to their own purpose; .
9 Brdhmans invented the pnncip e which *'i^> ™ '^7/ .;„,;tive societies that \
10 on the contrary I have said that it is ound m aU P-- . ^,^^^ ^^ ;
11 have outgrown the i^^^* ""^^"^^^ ^ '*"^'^ftii/de^ effect upon the
12 deliberately set to wort to P^^^^^^^J^taTces Ld ^ them to a position
13 growth of social institutions But " ™5"'';„,,ablv almost unconsciously,
14 ^^^IX^^n^^-eariier form, neither ^- - -^P^;— ^<S^ ^
15 in India to he necessarily, or invariablv ^^^^'^IJ^^^r^^ ^^J^oft Hindu j
16 Sn::;sss::siftt;s^ ■
17 s;S,t&iJ;Lmtrasi5^^^^ 1
18 |S^irSSSdr!Xr™St^eg^||^ ;
19 sevei.l Ltes w&le the possibility o^the m mc-1^ r^^^^ 3' e as^hfageo? I
20 M:Sr W wStS^:St;stI!r^:i^:iS great.stri.tnes. ^ the I
21 SbarinTportance of occupation had become a pxjom men P^^ ^^ Jh ,
22 Brahminical teaching, though its ha-editan' nature ^^f °^«\7t;\;'!;, J
23 emphaticallv insisted on.' It was in the dail' ages_ of Hmdu h story a, out [p.
24 tff beginning of an .ra during which Brabminism was substrt^^^^^^^^
25 Hinduism and the religion became a chaos of impure and ^^^Sf ^'^J!"';"^^ ,
26 fnd sectarian teachin|, that the theo.T of the necessmly here^M x^ -t^e o ,
27 occupation seems to have taken its Fesent form In the earlier epoc
28 priest was always a Brahman ; in the later the Brahman was always a piiest.
29 336. But if occupation was not necessarily \}--^-^^fJ^l,^^'t i'no ^
30 if caste varied with change of occupation in the earlier a^ra oflWui^m^^^ ;
31 - ^ For instances of the poa^lbOity of change of caste it wiU be -ffi-^^^;* ^Vrj^'" Cbap'lTan*^ !
32 CnMingham's History of the Sikhs, Appendix IV, toMnir's Sanskr,f Text , Vol I, Chap IV
33 stiU n,o?e to a BnddhUt pampWet caUed Vajra Shuchi '-^^'^^J^^f^^^ stthi^g humour woJd i
34 of Wilson's Indian Caste, and which for direct Tigorous reaeoning and Bcatumg uum
35 not disgrace the best days of EvgUsh partj' polemics.