Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.495
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c10.495
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Early Jainism also admitted to its monastic order members of all the varṇas, and tried to uplift the caṇḍālas. Thus a later Jain source refers to the case of a king who occupied a lower seat in learning spells from a mātaṅga.⁵ The Uttarādhyayoana informs us that Harisena, a sovāga (i.e. caṇḍāla) by birth, visited the sacrificial enclosure of a brāhmaṇa teacher and lectured to him on the value of penance, good life, right exertion, self-control, tranquility and celibacy.⁶