Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s20.595

v1.c3.s20.595

⁸ *Indiens Literatur und Cultur*, 366. Cf. Zimmer, *Altindisches Leben*, 39, 119. In the later system (Manu, x. 8) the Niṣāda is the offspring of a Brāhmaṇa and of a Śūdra woman, while the Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira (xiv. 10) recognizes a kingdom (rāṣṭra) of Niṣādas in the south-east of Madhyadeśa. In the Pāli texts (Fick, *Die sociale Gliederung*, 12, 160, 206 *et seq.*) they are wild hunters and fishers. Cf. also Muir, *Sanskrit Texts*, I², 301, 303, 366, n. 164, 403, 481.