Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.406

c12.406

¹ Pargiter thinks that the Kali age begins from the time of the Bhārata battle, but the description of the sins of the Kali age at the end of an age (yugānte) seems to refer to the period of chaos between the fall of the Mauryan and the rise of the Gupta empires.