[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.c19.322 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.322 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.322 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.322](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.322) \*Māhiṣya.\* According to the view of some teachers mentioned in Gaut. IV. 17 and Yāj. I. 92 he is an anuloma caste sprung from the marriage of a kṣatriya with a vaiśya woman. According to the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa (26. 45-46) he is entitled to upanayana and his avocations are astrology, augury, prognostications due to \*svara\*. According to the Sūtasaṁhitā he is the same as ambaṣṭha. - [Previous: v2.c19.321](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.321) - [Next: v2.c19.323](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.323) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.92) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.4.17) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Sūtasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.sutasamhita) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.322](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.322) · Pramāṇa