[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s18.308 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.308 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.308 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s18.308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.308) Since the Dāsas were in many cases reduced to slavery, the word Dāsa has the sense of ‘slave’ in several passages of the Rigveda.¹² Dāsī, the feminine, always has this sense from the Atharvaveda¹³ onwards. Aboriginal women were, no doubt, the usual slaves, for on their husbands being slain in battle they would naturally have been taken as servants. They would sometimes also become concubines; thus Kavaṣa was taunted with being the son of a female slave (dāsyāḥ putraḥ) in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.¹⁴ - [Previous: v1.c3.s18.307](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.307) - [Next: v1.c3.s18.309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.309) - [Up: v1.c3.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18) ## Linked texts (3) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.7.86.7) — Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.308) · Pramāṇa