Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.15

c10.15

The land of the Āryans (Āryāvarta), to which the Dharma-sūtras were to apply, embraced the region between the Punjab and Bihar, and between the Himalaya and the hills of Malwa,² but the lawgiver Baudhāyana belonged to the south though the same cannot be said with certainty about Āpastamba, who refers to a peculiar *śrāddha* usage of the northerners (*udīcyas*).³ The school of Vasiṣṭha probably flourished in the regions of the north-west.⁴