[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) › c8.289 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.289 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.289 - **Language:** English ### [c8.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.289) ² \*Mbh.\* VI. 10.45 and 46; 65 and 66; in the critical edition of the \*Mbh.\*, VII. 19.7, \*śūrābhīra\* seems to be a wrong reading. It should be \*śūdrābhīrāḥ\* as found in other Mss. (fn. on VII. 19.7). Śūdras and Ābhīras are again mentioned together in the \*Mahābhāṣya\* of Patañjali (Pat. on \*Pa.\*, I. 2.72.6). - [Previous: c8.288](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.288) - [Next: c8.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.290) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.10.45) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.289) · Pramāṇa