Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c9.80

c9.80

⁵ eṣa'etattamaḥ ppraviśattyetaṃ vvā tamaḥ praviśati yadayajñīyāniyojñena pprasajattyayajñīyānnvā' etadyajñena prasajati śūdrānstvadyāṃstu. Śat. Br., V. 3.2.2-4. The provision for expiation by means of offerings to Soma and Rudra, and Mitra and Bṛhaspati, looks like an attempt to reconcile two opposite views, one earlier and the other later, about the participation of the śūdra in the sacrifice. The king could enter into sacral relations with the śūdra, but the sin arising out of it had to be removed by another rite. It is to be noted that this does not occur in the Black Yajus texts or in the other texts of the White Yajus (Ghoshal, Hin. P. L., i, 133.)