History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.304

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825a Utpala on Laghujātaka IV. 1 states similarly that one (the astrologer) should specify the form (or appearance) of a person after knowing his caste, since śvapākas (cāṇḍālas) and niṣādas are dark-skinned by caste; similarly, he should consider in what family, whether of fair persons or dark persons, the person (whose horoscope is being examined) was born or in what country, since all people from Karnāṭaka are dark, people from Videha (i. e. Mithilā, part of present Bihar State) are dark-brown and from Kashmir fair लघुजातक IV. 1 is: सत्त्वं रजस्तमो वा त्रिंशांशे यस्य भास्करस्त्वदृक् । बलिनः सदृशीं मूर्तिंवदेच्च वा जातिकुलदेशान् ॥ जातिं दृष्ट्वा मूर्तिनिर्देशः, यतः श्वपाक-निषादा जातित एव कृष्णा भवन्ति । तेषां त एव निर्देशाः ॥ कस्मिन्कुलेऽयं जातो गौराणां कृष्णानां वा कस्मिन्देशे जातः, यत कर्णाटकाः सर्वे एव कृष्णाः वैदेहा श्यामाः काश्मीरा गौराः । folio 15b of commentary on लघुजातक IV. 1 (Ms. in Bhadkamkar collection of the Bombay University). For śvapāka vide p. 97 of H. of Dh. vol. II and for niṣāda pp. 43, 46, 86–87 of the same.