[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) › c19.12 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.12 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.12 - **Language:** English ### [c19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.12) Dadhiti, a royal sage, 12 Dahae, "a great group of Scythian tribes of horsemen and warriors", 19, 26, 39 Dakṣa Śiva, 308 Dambhodbhava (king), 60 Dāmodarpur copper plate inscriptions, 270, Daradas (people), 37, 324 Darbha Śātāniki, 61, 81 dāsakarmakarakalpa, a section in the AŚ, 179 Dāsas (people), 9-12; Dāsas and the Dasyus, 19-17, 19-23; Dāsas in the Ṛg Veda, 24-5, 45; in the later Vedic period, 50-51 dāsas (slaves) in the pre-Mauryan period, 102-5; distinction between the dāsas and the āhitakas (mortgaged people), 178-9, manumission of 180-81; in the post-Mauryan period, 201, 218, 226-7; in the Gupta period, 252-62, 279-81, 336. Also see slaves and slavery. Dasyus (people), 9-18; 21-2; 25-6, 35, 72, 226, 279 Dauṣmanta, 336 Deccan, 196, 200 Delhi, 305 Dhanurveda Saṃhitā, 295 Dharmaśāstra, 2, 5, 7, 32, 36, 62, 90, 93, 255, 306, 320 Dharmasūtras, 5, 60, 6-7, 78, 89, 90-91, 93-4, 97-8, 101, 122-3, 125-8, 131-4, 138-41, 143-5, 150, 153, 157-8, 160, 163, 171-2, 175, 177, 184-5, 190, 230, 242, 245, 283, 316, 319, 327, 332, 335-6, dhigvaṇa (mixed caste), 226-7, 336 dhivara, 336 Dhṛtimitra (prathamakulika), 270 Dīgha Nikāya, 91, 138, 149, 151, 201, 332 Dikshit, M. G., 197 Diodorus, 34 Dirghatamas, 23, 25, 69 Divodāsa (prince), 27 Divodāsas (priests), 23 Divyāvadāna, 192 ḍombas, 290-91 Draconian measures (of Manu), 277 Drāhyāyaṇa Śrautasūtra, 473 Draviḍas, 38, 139, 144, 269, 333-4 Dṛṣadvati, 38, 191 Druhyus (people), 18 Duryodhana, 97 Dutt, N. K., 4 - [Previous: c19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.11) - [Next: c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.13) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.12) · Pramāṇa