Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.441
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.441
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The caṇḍāla led a life of misery and squalor. A simile from a Pāli text informs us that a caṇḍāla boy or girl, clad in rags, with begging tray in hand, on entering village or town assumes a humble mein and then goes on.¹ We learn from a later Jātaka that the caṇḍāla possessed a pair of coloured garments (in order to distinguish him from the rest of the population), a girdle, a ragged robe and an earthen bowl.²