Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.142
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.142
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⁵ *yāsyāyāṃ viśva āryo dāsaḥ śevadhipā artha*. *RV*, VIII. 51.9. Sāyaṇa’s comm. to this passage, and also that of Uvaṭa and Mahidhara to a similar passage in *VS*, XXXIII, take *dāsa* as an adjective of *ārya*, but Geldner (*RV*. VIII. 51.9) takes *ārya* and *dāsa* as two independent nouns. In any case it is clear that the Aryan was also an object of attack.