Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.447
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.447
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c10.447
The pulkasas or the pukkusas seem to have been an aboriginal tribe that lived by hunting,⁵ but they were gradually absorbed in brāhmaṇical society for certain tasks such as removing flowers from the temple and the palace.⁶ The fact that they could approach the temple premises to remove flowers shows that they were not regarded as being quite as degraded as the caṇḍāla.