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their association with the cremation-ground. The terms. Mātanga and Candāla have been taken as synonyms by Bāna.2 The present untouchable caste called "Mang' in the cld Bombay Presidency and 'Māng' in Orissa 3 may be the descendants of these Mātangas.
(x) Meda-The Medas or Meyas are mentioned as the untouchables who hunted games with bow and arrow.. According to Manu, the Medas, were employed in hunting wild animals. The Medas as an antyaja caste have also been mentioned by Vedavyāsa.
(xi) Morattiya-Morattiya is mentioned as an untouchable caste with whom the higher Varnas could not interdine.? They have been identified with the Cândālas or Śvapākas.
(xii) Pana-Pápa was another wild tribe. As noted before, they have been identified with the Mātangas. Pāņas were highly despised by the people because of their filthy habits. 10 The Jaina monks were directed not to eat in their company lest they might also be thought as unclean as the Paņas. 11 As mentioned before, the Päņas and the Matangas worshipped the deities called Jakkhas. The status of the Pāņas was. evidently the same as that of the Candalas.
(xiii) Pulinda-Pulinda was a popular non-Aryan tribe. Like the Bhillas, the Pulindas also had their own forts or habitats marked as the Pulinda Kotta12 or Pulinda Palla18 and they 1. Sharma, op. cit., p. 264. 2. Kadambari, para 9. 3. Kanc, op. cit., p. 91. 4. F IERIAI Tata taarianca—NC. 3, p. 198; also Bjh.
V:. 3, p. 781. 5. Manu. 10. 48. 6. Vedavyāsasmrti, 1. 12-13. 7. gate toit, Eta, Athar -NC. 2, p. 243. 8. Paiya Sadda Mahannava, p. 700 9. See Mätangas. 10. NC. 1, p. 16; NC. 3, p. 157.
11. Hem faciüt iga 9108 sa Hea vallat Tua-NC. 1, p. 16 12. NO. 3, p. 496. 13. NC. 3, p. 521.
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