Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.35
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.35
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⁸ Schmidt assigns it to the 2nd cen. B.C. (Quoted in Dasgupta, Hist. of Sansk. Lit., p. 645) and H. P. Sastri to the first cen. A.D.; but Banerjee Sastri, Chakladar, Jolly and Winternitz ascribe it to the 3rd-4th cens. A.D. (Soc. Life in Anc. India, pp. 33-37). Chakladar thinks that Vātsyāyana flourished in western India (Ibid., p. 96).