THIS document is translated from the twenty-seventh Dialogue of the Long Collection (Dîgha-Nikâyo). It occurs in a discussion on the caste question; but that it is a book in itself is clear from the fact that a rival recension of the Scriptures has transmitted it in a different connection, and with a different title.

THIS document is translated from the twenty-seventh Dialogue of the Long Collection (Dîgha-Nikâyo). It occurs in a discussion on the caste question; but that it is a book in itself is clear from the fact that a rival recension of the Scriptures has transmitted it in a different connection, and with a different title.

THIS document is translated from the twenty-seventh Dialogue of the Long Collection (Dîgha-Nikâyo). It occurs in a discussion on the caste question; but that it is a book in itself is clear from the fact that a rival recension of the Scriptures has transmitted it in a different connection, and with a different title.