[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) › c13.37 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.37 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.37 - **Language:** English ### [c13.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.37) Some information can also be gleaned from those portions of the \*Hayaśīrṣa Pañcarātra\* and the \*Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa\* which deal with iconography. Although the former seems to have been a work of the Gupta period,¹ the latter seems to have been a compilation of post-Gupta times, and hence can be used only as a secondary piece of evidence. - [Previous: c13.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.36) - [Next: c13.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.38) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.37) · Pramāṇa