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Aspects of Brahmanıcal Influence on the Jaina Mythology
by Yajñavalkya, the son born of a Brāhmaṇa father and a Ksatriya mother was called a Mūrdhāvasıkta,70 the son of a Kşatrıya man by his Varsya wife was called a Māhişya and the son of a Varsya father and a Sūdra mother belonged to the caste called Karana,78 Manu does not refer to the above mentioned castes by any specific names. He simply calls them Anantaras, 70 i e. beionging to the next lower castes than those of their fathers. This suggests that the son of a Brāhmana father and a Kşatnya mother was reckoned as belonging to the Kşatnya caste-the original class of his mother Similarly, the offspring of a Ksatriya by his Varsya wife and those of a Varsya by his Sūdra castes respectively. However, on account of their fathers' higher classes than their mothers' castes, those Anantaras were treated as similar to their fathers with regard to social prestige 74 This being the case, Silanka's representation of the three sub-classes may be taken as based on Manu's concept of the Anantaras, specifically styled by Tajñavalkya as Mūrdhādasıkta, Māhışya and Karana respectively.
As to the remaining mixed castes, Silanka's description of their origin is in substantial agrcement with Manu's concept of the origin of the mixed castes Silanka tells us that from a Brähmana by the daughter of a Varsya was born an Ambaştha,78 from Kşalrıya by the daughter of a Śūdra was born an Ugra76 and from a Brāhmana by the daughter of a Sūdra was born a Nişāda 17 Again in an inverse order, by a Sudra on the daugh70. faxrnafafa fe efTTATH...
Tana 1.4 91a. 71 Ibid , 1 4 92b 72 Ruta 950 95179...
Ibid , 1 4 92b 79' Manu X 14 74 Ibid, XG 75 HT agat sagiti
-CMC, p 39 Manu X 8 76 fergut SETT FOTO
-Ibid p 39. of Manu X 8. - 77 माहणेण सुद्दीए णिसाम्रो ।
Ibid. p. 29, Manu X. 8
