What the Brahmans as protectors of their culture achieved in those days," writes Wilhelm von Pochhammer, "has never been properly recorded, probably … - Wilhelm von Pochhammer

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What the Brahmans as protectors of their culture achieved in those days," writes Wilhelm von Pochhammer, "has never been properly recorded, probably because a considerable number of people belonging precisely to this class had been slaughtered. If success was achieved in preserving Hindu culture in the hell of the first few centuries, the credit undoubtedly goes to the Brahmans. They saw to it that not too many chose the cowardly way of getting converted and that the masses remained true to the holy traditions on which culture rested…