Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.3

c14.3

**Mixed Castes.** There was also in the country any number of mixed castes (*antarāla*) as the outcome of marriages between persons of different castes. The fruits of such inter-marriage between them are thus mentioned by Kauṭilya [III. 7]: (1) Offspring of *anuloma* marriage: Ambashṭha, Nishāda or Pāraśava (of Brahmin father); Ugra (of Kshatriya father); Śūdra (of Vaiśya father); (2) offspring of *pratiloma* marriage: Āyogava, Kshatta, and Chaṇḍāla (of Śūdra father); Māgadha and Vaidehaka (of Vaiśya father); and Sūta (of Kshatriya father).