[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) › c18.46 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c18.46 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c18.46 - **Language:** English ### [c18.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.46) \*vaḍḍhai\*, 271 \*vadha\*, 66 \*vādhakas\*, 271 \*vadhya\*, 277 \*vaira\*, 66 \*vairadeya\*, 66 \*vairahatyā\*, 67 \*vaiśvadeva (ceremony)\*, 125, 128 \*vājapeya\*, 52, 63 \*vaka\*, 285 \*vālakhilya\*, 24-5 \*vappa-maṅgala (ploughing ceremony)\*, 97 \*varcas\*, 58-9 \*vardhaki\*, 170 \*vargin\*, 254 \*vārikena\*, 263 \*varṇa (ārya and dāsa)\*, 20 \*varṇasaṃkara\*, 132, 243, 260-1, 321, 330, 335, 340 \*varṇavarāṇām\*, 164 \*vasordhārā\*, 62 \*vāyu\*, 74 \*vedi\*, 79 \*veṇi\*, 142 \*veṇukāra (veḷukāra)\*, 141 \*vibhāṣā\*, 295 \*vidatha\*, 13 \*vi(du)ggurika kṣetra\*, 344 \*vimāna\*, 306 \*viṇā\*, 263 \*vipra\*, 278 \*viś\*, 10-12, 15-6, 20-1, 24, 31, 40, 52, 57-60, 63, 81, 83, 142 \*viśamatlā\*, 40 \*viśvajit\*, 78 \*viṣṭi\*, 165, 263, 339 \*viṣṭibandhakas\*, 171 \*vivāha\*, 299 \*vrata (Aryan)\*, 14, 18 \*vrāta\*, 14 \*vrātyastoma\*, 332 \*vṛddhi\*, 303 \*vṛṣala\*, 85, 138, 187, 206, 220, 230, 237, 270, 281 \*vṛṣalī\*, 224-5 \*vṛṣaṭipra\*, 15 \*vyākaraṇa\*, 158 \*vyavahāra-samatā\*, 183 - [Previous: c18.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.45) - [Next: c18.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.47) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c18.46) · Pramāṇa