ployed in burial grounds and despised even by those excluded (from ārya community)[1] (x, 32-39).
Farther on our text says:
"To the Sūtas (belong) the management of horses and chariots; to the Ambashthas, the art of healing; to the Vaidehakas, the service of women; to the Magadhas, trade."[2]
"Killing fish to the Nishādas, carpenters' work to the Āyogava, to the Medas, the Andhras, the Chunchus and the Madgus the slaughter of wild animals."
"To Kshattris, Ugras, Pukkasas, catching and killing of (animals) living in holes; to Dhigvanas working in leather, to Venas, beating the drum."
"Near well-known trees and burial grounds, on mountains and in groves let these (tribes) dwell, known (by certain marks) and subsisting by their peculiar occupations."
"But dwellings of the Chāndālas and the Shvapākas shall be outside the village. They must be made Apapātras[3] and their wealth shall be dogs and donkeys."
"Their dress shall be the garments of the dead. They shall eat their food from broken dishes, black iron shall be their ornaments, and they must always wander from place to place (x, 47-52)."
- ↑ In Kadambari Pundarika (during his birth as a parrot, when he was caught by a Chandāla) regretted the fact that he had to enter the habitation of Chandālas or Mātangas which were avoided even by foreigners (Mlechchas).
- ↑ In almost every drama we find a sūta employed to drive a chariot.
- ↑ Apapātra means a person so impure that even his touch would render a vessel impure, and therefore the vessels which such a person uses should be destroyed, and should never be used by an ārya. See page 24.
