[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) › c19.34 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.34 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.34 - **Language:** English ### [c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.34) Madanapāla, 70, 305 Madanikā (slave girl), 288 Madgus (tribe and mixed caste), 226-7, 336 Mādhava (divinity), 237 Mādhyandina (recension), 85 Madhyānta Vibhaṅga, 158 Madhya Pradesh, 95, 339 madranābhas (despised caste), 289 Magadhas, 95, 105, 114, 149, 315, 331, 341 māgadha (mixed caste), 132, 176, 226 māgadhi (Prakrit dialect), 295 Mahābhārata, 7, 28, 36, 40, 42, 47, 60, 70, 78, 80, 86, 243, 246, 293, 308, 334 Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali, 191, 230 Mahādeva, 308 Mahārāja Viṣṇudāsa, 282 Mahārāṣtra, 195, 328, 338-9 Mahāvastu, 192, 194, 200, 213 Mahāvīra, 93, 148 Mahāvrṣas (people), 36, 43, 74 Mahidāsa (author), 69 Mahidhara (commentator), 59 Māhiṣakas (people), 289 Māhiṣya, 336 maitra, 326, 333-4 Maitraka rulers (of Valabhī), 256, 326, 339 Maitrāyaṇi Saṃhitā, 84 maitreyaka (despised caste), 22a-7, 336 Majjhima Nikāya, 91, 102, 121 - [Previous: c19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.33) - [Next: c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.35) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.34) · Pramāṇa