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Not by matted hair,
by clan, or by birth,
is one a brahman.
Whoever has truth
& rectitude:
	he is a pure one,
	he, a brahman.
 395
Wearing cast-off rags
 — his body lean & lined with veins —
absorbed in jhana,
alone in the forest:
	he's what I call
	a brahman.
396
I don't call one a brahman
for being born of a mother
or sprung from a womb.
He's called a 'bho-sayer'
if he has anything at all.
But someone with nothing,
who clings to no thing:
	he's what I call a brahman.


Also, some scholars claim that the majority of the Buddha's followers were kshatriyas and vaishyas.

Joanna