Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.338
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.338
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⁴ Medhātithi takes these marks in the sense of "axes, adzes and so forth used for executing criminals and carried on the shoulder". Govindarāja explains them as 'sticks and so forth,' and Sarvajñanārāyaṇa as 'iron ornaments, peacock feathers and the like', SBE. xxv, 415, fn. 55). Cf. Bosc, op. cit., ii, p. 437.