[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.426 # An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.426 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.426 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.426](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.426) \*Yudhiṣṭhira\* wished to know whether any fault is incurred by one who gives instruction to a person belonging to a low caste. \*Bhīṣma\* recited what he had heard certain \*ṛṣis\* say: that such instruction should not be imparted to a person of a low or mean caste. He related the story of a \*Caṇḍāla\* who occurred in days of old: There was a \*brāhmaṇa\* who lived in the \*Himavat\*, inhabited by \*rākṣasas\* and \*piçācas\* (a). A \*Caṇḍāla\* asked the \*brāhmaṇa\* to initiate him into a life of righteousness. The \*brāhmaṇa\*, at some distance, refused, saying that he must live according to the rules of his caste (description). - [Previous: c5.s1.425](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.425) - [Next: c5.s1.427](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.427) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.426](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.426) · Pramāṇa