Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c17.s6.t1: Original Sources
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c17.s6.t1
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Texts *Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya*, Ed. and Tr. R. P. Kangle, Bombay, 1960-65. Ed. R. Shamasastry, 3rd edn., Mysore, 1924 (unless otherwise stated refs. in this work refer to this text). Tr. R. Shamasastry, 3rd edn., Mysore, 1929. Ed. with comm. by T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī, 3 vols., Trivandrum 1924-25. Ed. J. Jolly and R. Schmidt, Vol. i, Lahore, 1924. Tr. *Das altindische Buch vom Welt und Staatsleben*, J. J. Meyer, Leipzig, 1926.
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Commentaries *Jayamangalā* (runs up to the end of the BK. I of the *AS* with gaps), Ed. G. Harihara Sastri, *JOR*, xx-xxiii. *Pratipada-pañcikā* by Bhaṭṭasvāmin (on BK. II from sec. 8), Ed. K.P. Jayaswal and A. Banerji-Sastri, *JBORS*, xi-xii. *Naya Candrikā* by Mādhava Yajva (on BKs. VII-XII), Ed. Udayavīra Śāstrī, Lahore, 1924. *A Fragment of the Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra alias Rājasiddhānta with the fragment of the commentary named Nitinirṇiti of Ācārya Yogdhama alias Mugdhavilāsa*, Ed. Muni Jina Vijaya, Bombay, 1959.
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Inscriptions *Inscriptions of Aśoka*, Ed. E. Hultzsch, *CII*, i, Oxford 1925.
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Foreign Accounts: J. W. McCrindle, *Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature*, Westminster, 1901. ,, ,, *Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian*, Calcutta, 1926. ,, ,, *Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian*, London, 1882.