History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.291

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.291

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v2.c19.291

*Pāraśava.* Vide niṣāda above. In the Ādiparva 109. 25 Vidura is called pāraśava and he is said (in Ādi. 114.12) to have married the pāraśavī daughter of king Devaka. The Sahyādrikhaṇḍa (26. 43) says that he is called śūdra and is superior to a śūdra (in status) and that he was to live by the avocations prescribed for śūdras.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit