[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.c19.326 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.326 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.326 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.326](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.326) \*Meda.\* He is one of the seven \*antyajas\* (vide note 170). This is mentioned in Nārada (vākpāruṣya, verse 11). Anuśāsana 22. 22 speaks of medas, pulkasas and antāvesāyins, and the com. Nīlakaṇṭha²⁰¹ explains that Medas are those who eat the flesh of dead cattle. Manu X. 36 says that he is the offspring of a vaidehaka male and a niṣāda woman, that he dwells outside the village and Manu X. 48 says that his business along with that of Andhra, Cuñcu and Madgu is to kill wild beasts. Vide under Andhra above and see E. I. vol. XX. p. 130 where meda and cāṇḍāla are named as lowest castes in a grant of Paramardideva in saṁvat 1236. According to Śūdrakamalākara, andhras and medas have to sweep dirty places, doorsteps and privies. - [Previous: v2.c19.325](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.325) - [Next: v2.c19.327](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.327) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (4) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.10.36) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.13.22) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit - [Charkhari plates of Paramarddideva : \[Vikrama-\]Samvat 1236](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.central.candella.charkhari-plates-of-paramarddideva-vikrama-samvat-1236) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.326](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.326) · Pramāṇa