[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.c19.368 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.368 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.368 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.368](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.368) \*Sūcika\* or saucika or sūcī—one who works with a needle, a tailor. According to Vaik. (X. 15) and Uśanas (v. 22) he is a pratiloma, offspring of a vaidehaka from a kṣatriya woman and engages in the work of sewing with a needle. Saucika, according to the lexicon of Amara, is the same as tunnavāya (for which see above p. 83) and the Brahmapurāṇa quoted by Aparārka (p. 1178) also equates sūcī with tunnavāya. - [Previous: v2.c19.367](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.367) - [Next: v2.c19.369](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.369) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Auśanasasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.usanas) — Uśanas (Śukra), Sanskrit - [Vaikhānasadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vaikhanasa) — Vikhanas, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.368](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.368) · Pramāṇa