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either were ignorant of. or had a strong prejudice against, the 
employment of plough cultivation and employment of cattle 
for other work also in general. 
Plough cultivation is not however unknown in Nepal ; as a 
matter of fact it has been gaining ground in recent times. Its 
restriction to the Parbatiyas and the Brahmans of the Gurkhas 
definitely points to its introduction in Nepal through speed aia 
tively recent influences (not necessarily dating back only to 
the actual conquest in 1769). It is further ev ident that this 
influence is also Brahmanic. We have therefore to conclude 
that the Brahmanic influence which affected the Newars quite 
early, finding its definite expression much later under the Hindu 
For if the early Brahmanic people had themselves developed 
{in case of ignorance) this technique of plough cultivation in the 
plains, or discarded their prejudices of their own accord (which 
is ee oer it would have crept into Nepal among 
the Hindu Newars who were certainly in touch with their 
southern ie hora 
ery w vide questions are raised by these inferences about 
the history of culture in the Indian plains. These however fall 
outside the scope of this essay and can be ont with only in an 
analysis of Indian culture history as a whol 
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—_ 
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