[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c19.313 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.313 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.313 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.313](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.313) \*Madgu.\* Mentioned in Manu X. 48 as subsisting by killing wild beasts. Kullūka on that verse explains that according to Baudhāyana he is the offspring of a brāhmaṇa from a bandin female. Vaik. X. 12 says that he is the offspring of the marriage of a kṣatriya male with a vaiśya female and subsists as a merchant (śreṣṭhin) and does not take to the profession of a warrior. - [Previous: v2.c19.312](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.312) - [Next: v2.c19.314](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.314) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.10.48) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Vaikhānasadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vaikhanasa) — Vikhanas, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.313](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.313) · Pramāṇa