[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) › c19.52 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.52 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.52 - **Language:** English ### [c19.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.52) Taitsang, the Tang emperor, 341 Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, 46, 63, 75, 81, 84 Taittirīya Saṃhitā, 61, 82, 85 Tamil-Malayalam Commentary (of the Arthaśāstra), 161 Tamluk (port), 196 Tang, 341 Tantravārttika (of Kumārila Bhaṭṭa), 298 tantric, 304, 324 Tantricism, 309 Tarukṣa (Dāsa chief), 23, 27 Taxila, 196-7 tax-paying cultivators, 259 Thailand, 97 The Age of Imperial Unity, 94 Thera (male monk), 148 Therigāthā, 148 Tilak, B. G., 3 Tosali, 287 trade, land trade with Central Asia and China, 195; overseas trade with the Roman empire, 195; exported commodities, 195; import of crude glass, 197; steel export to the Roman empire, 197 See also ‘traders’ traders, 92, 105, 165, 267-8 Trasadasyu, 15, 24 Tretā age, 30 Tukhāras, 37 Turvaśas (tribe), 18 - [Previous: c19.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.51) - [Next: c19.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.53) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.52) · Pramāṇa