The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s6.4

c9.s6.4

But perhaps the *Taittirīya Samhitā* already relegates the Śūdra to a relatively subordinate position. The Śūdra has been declared in this “award” to be “not fit for the sacrifice.” In the cases of the other three, especially of the Kṣatriya and the Vaiśya no such discriminating award has been made. The social inferiority of the Śūdra as unprivileged may therefore be taken to be an item in the Vedic thought of the period in question.