[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) › c8.70 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.70 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.70 - **Language:** English ### [c8.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.70) ⁸ The term dásyu-hátyā occurs in RV, I. 51.5-6, 103. 4; X. 95.7, 99.7. Dásyu-ghná occurs in RV, IV. 16. 10 and dásyu-hán in RV, X. 47. 4. Dásyuhán-tama occurs in RV. VI. 16.15, VIII. 39.8, and is reproduced in VS, XI. 34. There are many other references to the hostility between the Āryans and Dasyus, viz. RV, V. 7. 10, VII. 5.6. etc. Indra is called dásyu-há in RV, I. 100. 12; VI. 45.24; VIII. 76. 11, 77. 3. There are similar references to the slaughter of Dasyus by Indra in AV, III. 10 12; VIII. 8. 5, 7; IX, 2.17 & 18; X. 3.11; XIX. 46.2: XX. 11.6, 21.4, 29.4, 34.10, 37.4, 42.2, 64.3, and by Agni in AV, I. 7.1; XI, 1.2. Manyu is called dásyu-há in AV, IV. 32.3. - [Previous: c8.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.69) - [Next: c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.71) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8) ## Linked texts (3) - [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.11.34) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.51.5) — Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.1.7.1) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.70) · Pramāṇa