 | Hindus - 1834 - 444 páginas
...it was secured by an institution which must be considered as the fundamental article in the system of their policy. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or castes. The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles... | |
 | 1834 - 472 páginas
...it was secured by an institution which must be considered as the fundamental article in the system of their policy. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or castes. The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 296 páginas
...castes, their civil policy, their laws, their progress in the arts and sciences, and their religion. 2. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or castes. The highest, that of the Bramins, was devoted to religion and the cultivation of the sciences:... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 páginas
...casts, their civil policy, their laws, their progress in the arts and sciences, and their religion. 2. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or casts. The highest, that of the Bramins, was devoted to religion and the cultivation of the sciences... | |
 | William Robertson - 1844 - 620 páginas
...it was secured by an institution which must be considered as the fundamental article in the system of their policy. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or casts. The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles... | |
 | William Robertson - 1856 - 616 páginas
...it was secured by an institution which must be considered as the fundamental article in the system of their policy. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or casts. The members of* the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for tfieir province to study the principles... | |
 | William Robertson - 1857 - 624 páginas
...it was secured by an institution which must be considered as the fundamental article in the system of their policy. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or casts. The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1862 - 650 páginas
...casts, their civil policy, their laws, their progress in the arts and sciences, and their religion. 2. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or casts. The highest, that of the Bramins, was devoted to religion and the cultivation of the sciences... | |
 | 1887 - 832 páginas
...perhaps the most early cultivators of the sciences, and the instructors of all the nations of antiquity. The whole body of the people was divided into four orders or castes. The higheet, that of the Brahmins, was devoted to religion, and the cultivation of the sciences;... | |
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The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles of religion ; to perform its functions ; and to cultivate the sciences. They were the priests, the instructors, and philosophers of the nation. 
