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durvarna' and 'duşkula' attaches a sense of abominableness to the status of this order. His mention of 'Ābhīras' “Pāmarī” a low-caste woman. 'Gopalalanās3 the cowherd-maids, krşībalas or tillers of the soil, hastipakas,* Kuśīlavas or the professional dancers or actors, Kirātas, Nāvikas' or sailors, Karmakaras or labourers, Bhillas,' Sabara,'' Nişādas." Mlecchas also known as Nāhalas," svaganikasa'or the hunters, Dasyus' or the barbarians, and tarkaras all these refers to Dhanapāla's knowledge of the tribes and clans that could be categorised within the pale of the fourth order. Mlecchas or Nāhalas could even be deemed untouchables.
All the four Aśramas stand alluded to in "allaT4:"15
The Brahmacarya has been referred to in the place where Meghavāhana has been described as taking to it after he had got a temple (Devātagțha) constructed of Śrī wherein the image of the latter had been installed accordingly." He took to it ere to his getting the boon of Sri for the birth of a son. As advised by the Vidyādhara sage he would inspect the out precincts of Sāketupura and spend some of his days abstaining from physical enjoyments taking to the vow of muttering the holy syllables quite punctiliously anticipating well the birth of his progeny." During the course of his vow of continence he would sleep on a couch bestrewn with Kušās.
1. TM. Vol. II p. 242. 2. Ibid. Vol. II p. 259. 3. Ibid. Vol. II p. 258. 4. Ibid. Vol. II p. 260. 5. Ibid. Vol. II p. 265. 6. Ibid. Vol. III p. 138, Vol. II. p. 182. 7. Ibid. Vol. II p. 298. 8. Ibid. Vol. II p. 298. 9. Ibid. Vol. III p. 68. 10. Ibid. Vol. III, 68, Vol. III p. 316, Vol. III p./138. TM Vol. III p. 65. 11. Ibid. Vol. III p. 63. Vol. III p. 84, Vol. II p. 289, Sm. ed. p. 415. 12. Ibid. Vol. III p. 81, Vol. III p. 63. 13. Ibid. Vol. III p. 65. 14. Ibid. Vol. III p. 68. 15. Ibid. Vol. I p. 63. 16. Ibid. Vol. I p. 104. 17. एवं च तस्योपरतराज्यचिन्ताभारस्य विरचिताभ्यर्णपर्णशालाकृतस्थितेस्त्रिकालस्थायिनः परिमितफलाहार
परिपालितशरीरस्य कुशतल्पशायिनो मुनिसमुपदिष्टेन विधिनाव्रतमपत्यसन्ततिनिबन्धनमनतिचारं पालयतो गृहीतer faah atafacfauty: ITM Vol. I p. 106.
