The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.9

c18.9

“But the residences of the Caṇḍâlas ”—so it is said in Manu (X. 51 sq.)—“should be outside the village, their dress should consist of garments of the dead : they must eat their food out of broken pots ; black iron should be their ornament and always they must wander from place to place. A man who fulfils a religious duty should not seek intercourse with them ; their business they should conduct among themselves and their marriages they must contract with their equals.