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X, 48.
MIXED CASTES.
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45. All those tribes in this world; which are excluded from (the community of) those born from the mouth, the arms, the thighs, and the feet (of Brahman), are called Dasyus, whether they speak the language of the Mlekkhas (barbarians) or that of the Aryans.
46. Those who have been mentioned as the baseborn (offspring, apasada) of Åryans, or as produced in consequence of a violation (of the law, apadhvamsaga), shall subsist by occupations reprehended by the twice-born.
47. To Satas (belongs) the management of horses and of chariots; to Ambashthas, the art of healing; to Vaidehakas, the service of women; to Magadhas, trade;
48. Killing fish to Nishadas; carpenters' work to the Âyogava; to Medas, Andhras, Kuñkus, and Madgus, the slaughter of wild animals;
read Pahnava. Gov. gives Pallava. The editions give the Khasas after the Daradas. But Medh., Gov., Nand., and K. have tatha at the end of the verse. The commentators state that the names enumerated in the first instance denote countries, and next, particular races living in them.
45. Those born from the mouth, &c.,' i. e. the four Varnas; see above, I, 87.
46. “Base-born offspring of Aryans ;' see above, verses 17 and 41.
47. The service of women,' i.e. the office of guardians in the harem.'
48. Instead of K’unku (editions, Râgh.), Medh., Gov., and Når. seem to have read K’uku. Nand. reads Mamsu for Madgu. Når. says that these two words are synonyms of Ghalla and Malla; see above, verse 22. But Gov. quotes a verse of Yama, according to which the KQkuka is the son of a Vaisya by a Kshatriya female, and the Madgu the offspring of a Sudra and a Kshatriya. Kull.'s and Râgh.'s reference to Baudh. is, according to the MSS. of the Baudh. Dharmastra, erroneous.
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