Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c16.6
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c16.6
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² The number eighteen is latter applied to tīrthas (officers in the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya), parihāra (immunities), parvans and akṣauhiṇīs in the Mahābhārata, to Purāṇas and so on. Its multiple thirty-six appears in early medieval times to enumerate varṇas.