Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 517 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. VOLS. I. AND II. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

So that their caste might not be injured. A dhobí, or washerman, is of much lower caste than a Bráhman or a Khshatriya.