Sambodhi 2006 Vol 30

Author(s): J B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Prāyaścitta:
SATYA PAL NARANG
SAMBODHI
Apararka quotes Ušanas dozens of times, about the quotations being in prose (most of them on Präyaścitta.)55
Varnas:
Inter-castes:- Patriarchal Status:
It is interesting to note that he states that the son of a Brāhmaṇa from a Ksatriya wife is a Brahmana and the son of a Kṣatriya from a Vaiśya wife is a Ksatriya. (p. 814 on Vyavahāra)56 The son of a Brāhmaṇa from a śūdra woman is called päraśava, but according to some he is Niṣāda. The whole of the portion of the manuscript, according to Kane, about the the mixed castes bears a very close resemblance to Baudhayana Dharmasūtra 1.9) except in a few particulars."? According to Ušanas, the son of a Brähmana, Ksatriya or Vaisya from a wife of the varna immediately next to it, belonged to the caste of the father.s
Anuloma: See: Śräddha
Niyatakala: See: Śräddha
Brāhmaṇa: ätatäyi: killing of:
According to Uśanas tradition, there is no sin or punishment attached to one who kills an ātatayī i.e. with a weapon to kill a person. That was the criterion for the division of the Dharmasastrin and an Arthaśästrin which is alluded to in the Mahabharata, Arthaśästra of Kautilya and in details in Mitākṣarā i.e. brāhmaṇamudyamyäyäntam. It was, perhaps, due to the following of the tradition of the Uśanas that the Arthaśāstra of Kautilya was declared as nirghṛna and became an obsolete and undesirable law and was unpopular amongst the Brahmanas.
Vaisya (Vit?):-:- According to Uśanas, dogs, Vaiśya(vit)?, boar, cat, dog, mangoose, Śūdra, a lady in menses and the husbands of Südra should be avoided. It occurs in Smṛticandrikä also.61
Śūdra:- Likewise, a śüdra should also be avoided. About the intercaste marriage: See: Intercaste: op.cit. & Special rules for Śräddha.
Abuse to Südra:- Haradatta on Gau. Dh. S. 12.10 quotes a prose passage of Uśanas on the fine for a Ksatriya abusing a Śūdra.62