Note 1 — Chapter I
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: In later times, slavery was not confined to the low castes; insolvents could be made slaves by their creditors—the chief frequently buying the debt, and attaching the debtor to his followers. The children of freemen, by female slaves, followed the status of their mothers.
2: HARDY'S Buddhism, ch. x. p. 482.
3: HARDY'S Eastern Monachism, ch. iv. p. 18.