However, the study of medicinal plants was limited to the priestly class.
She compared the priestly class to the skeleton of vertebrates.
They had essentially no literature, no literacy outside the priestly class and the bureaucracy.
The political elites associated with the priestly class were relieved of power by groups of warriors.
They invited a non-vegetarian priestly class to do the rituals of the temple.
Ideologically, an early priestly class or theocracy is often present or in development.
A priestly class, "equipped with trained memories," made and administered the laws, their power strengthened because there was no body of written law.
Early Vedic literature suggests the use of alcohol by priestly classes.
"The skildirsha show a proper respect for the priestly class, then."
After several such episodes, even a member of the priestly class recognized the connection between silence and unimpeded breathing.