The Jataka, Vol. IV
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Book XIII: Story 474 — AMBA-JATAKA.

^127:2 These are the names of six castes: Kshatriya, Brahman, Vaicya, Cudra, the four castes familiar in Sanskrit books, together with two Candala and Pukkaca, both mixed castes and much despised. More about these castes, and the Buddhist system as contrasted with the Brahminical, may be seen in R. Fick's Sociale Gliederung im N.-O. Indien zu Buddha's Zeit, Kiel, 1897. Fick denies that the Suddas were ever a real caste (p. 202). For Candala, see p. 203; for Pukkusa, p. 206; both, in his opinion, non-Aryan subject races, serfs almost. The order of the list in our verse should be noticed. The Jataka gives the Khattiyas, or Warriors, precedence over the Brahmins.