[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958) › c13.238 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.238 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.238 - **Language:** English ### [c13.238](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.238) ⁶ \*ŚP\*, 85. 7-10. The passage, which provides for a body of 37 amātyas of whom four should be brāhmaṇas, eight kṣatriyas, twenty-one vaiśyas, three śūdras and one sūta (\*ŚP\*. (Cal.), 85-7-11), does not occur in the critical Edn. of the \*ŚP\*. - [Previous: c13.237](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.237) - [Next: c13.239](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.239) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.85.7) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.238](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.238) · Pramāṇa