In the period of "Hinduism" neither people nor religion can claim to be quite Aryan.] [Footnote 2: If, as thinks Schrader, the Aryans' original seat was on the Volga, then one must imagine the Indo-Iranians to have kept together in a south-eastern emigration.] [Footnote 3: That is to say, frequent reference is made to 'five tribes.' Some scholars deny that the tribes are Aryan alone, and claim that 'five,' like seven, means 'many.'] [Footnote 4: RV.III.33.

11; 53.12.Zimmer, _Altindisches Leben_, p.

160, incorrectly identifies _vic_ with tribus (Leist, _Rechtsgeschichte_, p.

105).] [Footnote 5: Vicv[=a]mitra.

A few of the hymns are not ascribed to priests at all (some were made by women; some by 'royal-seers,' _i.e._ kings, or, at least, not priests).] [Footnote 6: Caste, at first, means 'pure,' and signifies that there is a moral barrier between the caste and outcast.
The word now practically means class, even impure class.