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The Journal of the Greater India Society July 1938

1938

From the beginning of the colonisation a racial mixture surely took place in Ceylon on the one side with the aboriginal inhabtants of the island on the other side with the Dravidas of Southern India. [...] At the head of this clan stands the mythical King Okkaka the lksvaku of the Indian Epics the founder of the Solar line. [...] Each of the four castes had its peculiar profession : the Brahmanns were the priests the Ksatriyas the warriors the Vaigyas the agriculturists and the Sadras the artisans. [...] The Ksatriyas were no longer 'warriors' when the conquest of the country was finished and the race of the aboriginal inhabitants was absorbed by that of the invaders. [...] In the eyes of the people they were no doubt superior to the Brahmanas and in the whole Buddhist literature the Ksatriyas are always assigned the first place in the list of castes.
philosophy religion
Pages
97
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120050
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi U.N. Ghoshal view
Contributions from the Mahavamsa to our knowledge of the Mediaeval Culture of Ceylon
93-127 Wilhelm Geiger view
Kataha
128-146 K.A. Sastri view
Some Indian Parallels of Lokesvara types in Indo-China
147-150 U.N. Ghoshal view
The Rastrapalanataka of Asvaghosa
151-153 E.H. Johnston view
Epigraphic Notes
154-156 Dines Sircar view
Obituary
157-158 N.G. Majumdar view
Notices of Books
159-168 unknown view
Honorary Secretary’s Report on the Eighth International Congress of Historical Sciences Zurich 1938
169-172 unknown view
Honorary Secretary’s Report on the Twentieth International Congress of Orientalists Brussels 1938
173-176 unknown view
Short Notices
177-178 unknown view
Books Received
179-180 unknown view
Backtmatter
i-ii unknown view

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