Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.3

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Abastanoi, a people, 25 Ābhīra (people and rulers), 36-8, 225, 268, 326, 336 Ābhīrī, an Āryan dialect, 38 aborigines, 33, 60, 71, 248, 312, 324 Ācārya, 333 *A Code of Gentoo Laws*, 1 *Ādi Parvan* (of the *Mahābhārata*), 161, 223 Afghanistan, 196, 198 Africa, 9 Age of Consent Bill (1891), 3 Agni, 15, 17, 19, 60-2, 83-4 Agni Vaiśvānara, 14 āhiṇḍaka, 226, 336 Ahura, 39 Ahura Mazda, 74 *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, 35, 45, 53, 64-7, 69 Aitareya (author), 69 Ajātaśatru of Magadha, 149, 150 Ajīgarta of the Aṅgiras clan, 71 Ājīvika sect, 152, 187, 324 Alexander, 34, 159 Alina, a people, 18 Allahabad Inscription of Samudra Gupta, 329 *Amarakośa*, 247, 254, 257, 279, 290-2, 322 Amarasiṃha, 247, 262, 285 Ambaṣṭha king, 35 Ambaṣṭhas, 35, 42, 225, 290, 336 Aṃśumatī (the Yamunā river), 14 Ānanda, 200 Andhras (tribe), 72, 226-7, 326, 331, 336 Andhra Pradesh, 196, 329 Aṅga (king), 50 Aṅga (people), 182 Aṅgiras (clan), 23, 71, 146 Aṅgulimāla (robber), 146 *Aṅguttara Nikāya*, 91 Antyāvasāyin (untouchable), 336 Anus, a people, 18 *Anuśāsana Parvan* (of the *Mahābhārata*), 246, 248, 253, 274, 280, 284, 287, 289, 291, 327 Āpastamba (lawgiver), 91, 102, 107, 111-2, 116-7, 119, 120, 123, 125-7, 131, 133-4, 139, 143, 145, 204 *Āpastamba Dharmaśūtra*, 75, 106, 127, 133, 143-4, 158 *Āpastamba Śrautasūtra*, 47, 77, 84 aphamiotai, 182 Apipāla, 305 *Āraṇyaka Parvan* (of the *Mahābhārata*) 237 Arbuda, 268 Arcasid, 195, 340 Archer coin of Kumāra Gupta, 342 Arikamedu, 196-8 Aristotle, 172 Arrian, 35, 163, 174, 181, 185 *Arthaśāstra* of Kauṭilya, 6, 157-60, 161-2, 165-6, 168-9, 172-3, 175, 183, 187, 189-90, 200, 205-6, 240, 250, 256, 259, 264, 268, 317, 333, 336 artisans' guild, 248 artisans, in the Rg-Vedic period, 30-3; in the later Vedic period, 53-4, 54-6, 82, 88; in the pre-Mauryan period, 98-101, 111-2, 115, 119, 137, 152, 154-5; in the Mauryan period, 159, 162, 165-7, 195-71; in the post Mauryan period, 195-9, 241; in the Gupta period, 258-9, 262-5, 286 Āruṇi, 60, 73, 85 Ārya-deśa, 38 Āryan commoners, 24 Āryan community, 18, 31-2, 78, 230, 314 Āryan culture, 335 Āryan freeman, 86 Āryan languages, 28, 38 Āryans, 9-24, 26-30, 32-3, 35-40, 42, 69, 73-4, 80-4, 88-9, 91, 201, 236, 252, 314, 331-2 āryas, 9-10, 17, 21-2, 34-6, 59, 68, 80, 84, 109, 116-7, 129, 137, 145, 171, 179-81, 316-7 Ārya Samāja, 2 Āryan śūdras, 33, 314 Āryāvarta, 91, 227, 328, 335 Asahāya (commentator), 258 Asia, 9 Aśoka, 151, 182-3, 190, 317, 337-8 Aśokan Inscriptions, 159, 174, 181, 183, 187, 192, 234, 236, 317