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... Brahmin ( Hindu ) teachers also continued to run their own schools . Brahmin priests or purohitas were maintained in the palaces of kings as royal soothsayers and also to conduct the important rites and ceremonies for the royal family ...
... Brahmin ( Hindu ) teachers also continued to run their own schools . Brahmin priests or purohitas were maintained in the palaces of kings as royal soothsayers and also to conduct the important rites and ceremonies for the royal family ...
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... Brahmin " ( high caste ) or a Candala ( low caste ) only by his deeds , caste still prevails in Lanka too . It is however not such a binding social system as in India . When the Emperor Asoka of India was con- verted to Buddhism in the ...
... Brahmin " ( high caste ) or a Candala ( low caste ) only by his deeds , caste still prevails in Lanka too . It is however not such a binding social system as in India . When the Emperor Asoka of India was con- verted to Buddhism in the ...
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