[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) › c8.142 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.142) 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. - [Previous: c8.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.141) - [Next: c8.143](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.143) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.142) · Pramāṇa