[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) › c18.3 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c18.3 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c18.3 - **Language:** English ### [c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.3) \*abhijana\*, 172 \*adāsa\*, 180 \*ádevīḥ viśaḥ\*, 15 \*adhamas\*, 273 \*ādhāva\*, 72 \*adhvaryu\*, 57, 62 \*ādrava\*, 72 \*āgahi\*, 72 \*agnicayana\*, 83 \*agnihotra\*, 84, 89, 232, 309 \*āhataka\*, 109-10 \*āhitakas\*, 178-81 \*Aindra\*, 303 \*aindrāgni\*, 297 \*ájayeyyam\*, 53 \*ákratūn\*, 13 \*akīta\* (land), 32 \*akṣavanidhi\*, 330 \*akṣayanīvi\*, 330 \*amātya\*, 172, 187 \*anāmay\*, 125 \*anaṅgadāna-vrata\*, 306 \*anāsa\*, 15 \*annaprāśana\*, 298 \*anṛtadūta\*, 56 \*antaḥ\*, 144 \*antamahāmātra\*, 339 \*antarālas\*, 185 \*antas\*, 72 \*antyas\*, 143, 228, 276 \*antvajaḥ\*, 212, 229, 291 \*antvā-asivins\*, 144, 175, 186, 226-8, 291, 293 \*antvayonis\*, 143 \*anuloma\*, 132, 253, 332, 335 \*anuṣṭubh\*, 61, 71, 81 \*anyavyapreṣyaḥ\*, 65 \*anyavrata\*, 14, 25 \*āpad-dharma\*, 192 \*apakṛṣṭa\*, 205 \*apakṛṣṭaḥ\*, 212 \*apapātra\*, 125, 229 \*apavrata\*, 14, 25 \*aprahata\*, 328 \*apṛṇantam\*, 19 \*apṛṇataḥ\*, 19 \*ar\*, 9 \*arādhasam\*, 19 \*arājakatā\*, 260, 321 \*ārdhikaḥ\*, 240, 257 \*ardhasītika\*, 240 \*ārogya\*, 125 \*ārṣa\* (marriage), 293 \*artha\*, 158 \*arthavāda\*, 202 \*arya\*, 80 \*aryā\*, 289 \*āryā\*, 120 \*ārya kṛta\*, 117 \*āryaprāṇa\*, 177 \*āryatvam\*, 179 \*asaṃskṛta\*, 310 \*Asamvṛta\*, 231 \*asat\*, 319, 323 \*aspr̥śyas\*, 273 \*asiknivīśaḥ\*, 14 \*aśraddhān\*, 13 \*āśramas\*, 72, 136, 301 \*aṣṭādaśa śreṇi\*, 200 \*aṣṭavidham karma\*, 104 \*asura\*, 39 \*āsura\* (marriage), 184, 283 \*aśvamedha\*, 49, 51, 59-61, 67, 207 \*attano purisā\*, 110 \*avakṛṣṭa\*, 297 \*avara\*, 171, 181, 219, 242 \*avaravarṇaprāyā\*, 162 \*avrata\* (avratān), 74, 333 \*āvuso\*, 151 \*ayajñān\*, 13 \*ayājya\*, 188 \*ayājyāyajanādhyāpane\*, 188 - [Previous: c18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.2) - [Next: c18.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.4) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.3) · Pramāṇa