Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c17.s8.t1: Original Sources
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c17.s8.t1
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Original Sources
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Texts
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*Amarakośa* or *Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana* of Amara with the comm. of Bhaṭṭakṣīrasvāmin, Ed. A. D. Sharma and N. G. Sardesai, Poona, 1941.
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*Bṛhaspati Smṛti* (this text has been followed), Ed. K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, *GOS*, lxxxv, Baroda, 1941. Tr. J. Jolly, *SBE*, xxxiii, Oxford, 1889.
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*Bṛhat Kalpasūtra* and Original *Niryukti* of Sthavira Ārya Bhadrabāhu Svāmin and a Bhāṣya by Saṃghadāsa Gaṇi Kṣamaśramaṇa with a commentary begun by Malayagiri and completed by Kṣemakīrti, 6 vols., Bhavnagar, 1933-42.
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*Bṛhat Saṃhitā* of Varāhamihira with Hindi Tr., Durga Prasad, Lucknow, 1884.
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*Bṛhat Saṃhitā* of Varāhamihira with the comm. of Bhaṭṭotpala, 2 parts, Ed. Sudhākara Dvivedī, Banaras, 1895-7.
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*Jambudvipaprajñaptiḥ* with the comm. of Śānticandra, Bombay, 1920.
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*Jayākhya Saṃhitā*, Ed. Embar Krishnacharya, *GOS*, liv, Baroda, 1931.
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*Kāmandakiya Nitisāra*, Ed. R. L. Mitra, *BI*, Calcutta, 1884. Tr. M. N. Dutt, Calcutta, 1896.
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*Kāmasūtra* of Vātsyāyana with the comm. *Jayamangalā* of Yaśodhara, Ed. Gosvami Damodar Shastri, Banaras, 1929.
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*Kātyāyana Smṛti* on Vyavahāra, Law and Procedure, Ed. with reconstituted text, tr., notes and introduction by P. V. Kane, Bombay, 1933.
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*Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra*, Ed. Bunyiu Nanjio, Kyoto, 1923. Tr. D. T. Suzuki, London, 1932.
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*Mālavikāgnimitra* of Kālidāsa, Ed. P. S. Sane, G. H. Godbole and H. S. Ursekar, Bombay, 1950.
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*Mṛcchakaṭika* of Śūdraka, Ed. and Tr. R. D. Karmarkar, Poona, 1937. Tr. R. P. Oliver, Illinois, 1938.
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*Nārada Smṛti* with extracts from the comm. of Asahāya, Ed. J. Jolly, Calcutta, 1885. Tr. J. Jolly, *SBE*, xxxiii, Oxford, 1889.
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*Narasimha Purāṇa*, 2nd Edn., Bombay, 1911.
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*Nāṭyaśāstra* of Bharata Muni with the comm. of Abhinavagupta, Ed. Manavalli Ramakrishna Kavi, 3 vols., *GOS*, Baroda, 1926-54. Tr. Manomohan Ghosh, Calcutta, 1950.
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*Pañcatantra* in its oldest recension, the Kashmiriān, entitled *Tantrākhyāyikā*, Ed. J. Hertel, *HOS*, xiv, Harvard, 1915. The text in its oldest form, Ed. F. Edgerton, Poona, 1930 (References are made to this text).
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*Piṇḍaniryuktiḥ* of Bhadrabāhu Svāmī, Bombay, 1918.
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*Raghuvamśa* of Kālidāsa, Ed. Raghunatha Nandargikar, Bombay, 1891.
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*Theragāthā Aṭṭhakathā* (*Paramattha Dipani*), the comm. of Dhammapāla, Ed. F. L. Woodward, 2 vols., *PTS*, London, 1940-52.
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*Yājñavalkya Smṛti* with Viramitrodaya and Mitākṣarā, Chaukhamba Sansk. Series, Banaras, Saṃvat, 1986.
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*Vajrasūci* of Aśvaghoṣa, Ed. and Tr. Sujitkumar Mukhopadhyaya, Santiniketan, 1950.
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*Vimāna-Vatthu Aṭṭhakathā*, (pt. IV of the *Paramattha Dipani* of Dhammapāla), Ed. E. Hardy, *PTS*, London, 1901.
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*Viṣṇudharmottara Mahāpurāṇa*, Bombay, Vikrama Saṃvat, 1969.
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*Viṣṇu Smṛti* or *Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra* (with extracts from the comm. of Nanda Paṇḍita), Ed. J. Jolly, *BI*, Calcutta, 1881. Tr. J. Jolly, *SBE*, vii, Oxford, 1880.
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Chinese Sources
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Samuel Beal, *Travels of Fah-hian and Sung-Yun* (Tr.), London, 1869.
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H. A. Giles, *The Travels of Fa-hsien or Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms* (Tr.), Cambridge, 1923.
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James Legge, *A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms* (being an account of the Chinese monk Fa-hien’s Travels) Tr., Oxford, 1886.
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T. Watters, *On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India*, Ed. T. W. Rhys Davids and S. W. Bushell, 2 vols., London, 1904-5.
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Muslim Sources
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Edward C. Sachau, *Alberuni’s India* (Tr. & Ed.), London, 1888.
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Inscriptions
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J. F. Fleet, *Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings*, CII, iii, London, 1888.