Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.540

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Pt.II, Fascicule 19, pp. 660-661. The *pākayajñas* are also recommended for all the *dasyus* (*ŚP*, 65. 21-22), which shows that these were being extended to the people outside brāhmaṇical fold. Cf. *Bṛhaspati*, *Saṃskāra*, verse 529.
1. *ŚP.*, 60. 37-38.
2. ...*yajño manīṣayā tāta sarvavarṇeṣu bhārata; ... tasmātsarveṣu varṇeṣu śraddhāyajno vidhīyate. ŚP*, 60. 39-43, cf. 51-52. The term *sarvavarṇa* is glossed as *traivarṇika* by the comm. Cn (according to the classification of the Critical Edn.). Fascicule, 19, pp. 660-661.
3. *Yāj.*, III. 262.
4. Gampert, *Die Sühnezeremonien in der Altindischen Rechtsliteratur*, p. 94.
5. *Br.*, *Prāyaścitta*, verse 60.
6. *Br.*, *Saṃskāra*, verse 101. But the metal of the needle for piercing ears differs according to the varṇa of the child (*Ibid.*).
7. *Ibid.*, *Saṃskāra*, verse 154 (a).
8. R. B. Pandey, *Hindu Saṃskāras*, p. 161.
9. *cūḍākarma dvijātīnāṃ sarveṣāmeva dharmataḥ*. Manu, II. 35.