Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c11.31

Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c11.31

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c11.31

⁴ AŚ I. 3. In the phrase ‘śūdrasya dvijātiśuśrūṣā vārtā’ the term ‘vārtā’ is not used in the sense of the three occupations of agriculture, tending of cattle and trade, as Shamasastry thinks (*Tr.*, p. 7), but in the sense of livelihood (*Jayamangalā* JOR, xx. 11.

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Jayamaṅgalā — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit