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¹ The contention of Mr Ketkar in his *History of Caste in India* (1909) that Manu is at least as late as the fall of the Andhras (third century a.d.), because they are mentioned as a low caste is not cogent, because the verse may well have been one inherited from a list of degraded tribes (castes) and preserved. The Andhras are regarded as barbarians in early Brāhman literature. Cf. *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, vii, 18.