Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.42

c19.42

Pāṇini, the grammar of, 43, 59, 90, 99, 100, 106, 117, 138, 143, 186, 218, 220, 323 Paṇis, 20 Paṇṇavaṇā (Jain work), 192 Pārada, 334 Parāśara, 70 pāraśavas (despised caste), 132, 177, 185, 225, 336 Paraśurāma, 40 Pargiter, F. E., 269 Parṇaka (people), 50 Parthians, 192, 207, 242, 326 Paruṣṇī (river), 18 Patañjali, 138, 191, 195, 201, 205, 218-20, 222, 224, 229 paulkasas (pulakaśas, pulakusas, puk-kusas, pukkasas), 50, 71, 89, 132, 141-2, 145-6, 177, 185, 225-8, 292, 295, 336 Pauṇḍraka, 334 peasants, 95, 238, 257-8, 261, 312, 315, 317 Persia, 27 petty bourgeoisie, 321 Pharaohs, 313 Pillar Edict iv (of Aśoka), 183 pottery (of post-Mauryan period), 198 Prajāpati, 49, 73, 80-81, 252 Prākṛit, 295 Pramati (incarnation), 237 Pratardana Daivodāsi, 24 Pravāhaṇa Jaivali, 41 Pravarasena II, 339 Pre-Aryan peoples, 37-8 Pṛṣadhra, 286 Pulindas (tribe), 38, 72, 174, 289-90 Puṇḍras (people), 72 Panjab, 37, 91 punch-marked coins, in the pre-Mauryan period, 95; in the Mauryan period, 182 Puṇjiṣṭhas (people), 82, 332 Purāṇas, 32, 42, 70, 192, 233, 267, 293, 304, 310-11, 313, 317 purohita, 172 Purkutsa (Vedic chief), 15, 24 Pūrus (tribe), 18 Puruṣasūkta (of the Ṛg Veda), 24, 32-4, 68 Pūṣan (divinity), 49, 59, 80-81 Puṣpadha, 333, 335