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respectively. Similar kind of four colours of soil are allotted to four castes.
in the AP. 23 It also describes that the br膩hman land smells ghee, K峁�atriya
land blood, Vai艣ya land cooked rice and the S奴dra land wine. They should
also taste sweet, pungent, bitter and astringent tastes in order as also
mentioned in the MP. 24 The SS25 slightly differs and allots tastes like
sweet, astringent, pungent and bitter to four castes respectively.
EXAMINATION OF SOIL
Though these prescriptions are given in the texts but their actual validity is
not known whether these were obligatory or only recommendatory. The
next pre-requisite is the bh奴mi-parik峁Ｄ� or examination of soil before laying
out the house. If one is unable to determine the caste of a soil by colour,
taste or smell, the MP says that one should prepare a small piece of
ground with plough and sow sesamum seeds therein. If sprouts appear
after the third night, it is brahman soil; similarly, if they appear after five,
seven or nine days nights, they should be recognised as Ksatriya, Vai艣ya
and S奴dra respectively. If the seedings appear after nine nights, then the
soil becomes suitable to the caste of pi艣膩chas and men should not built on
such soil. 26 One would get happiness by living on his own class of land.
The br膩hman may live on all the four classes of lands, the Ksatriya on
three classes of lands, the Vai艣ya on two and the S奴dra on one; these are
the rules for the four classes.鈥�
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