Mlecchas
group · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Mleccha · barbarians · land of barbarians · land of the Mlecchas · mlecchadeśa · mlecchas · outcastes · rogues · sinners · the Mlecchas
spoken of as
2 expressionsMleccha1 mention
Viṣṇu Smṛti (Sanskrit)
And after conversing with a Caṇḍāla or a Mleccha.
Untouchables, rogues, barbarians“mlecchas”1 mention
Kātyāyana Smṛti (Sanskrit)
For beating untouchables, rogues, slaves, barbarians (*mlecchas*), sinners, and those born of mixed unions against the natural order, there is no monetary fine.
in the texts
Viṣṇu Smṛti
Non-Aryan outsiders / barbarians, and by extension the lands they inhabit, treated as ritually and socially impure.
Not to Mlecchas or outcastes.
One shall not go to a *mlecchadeśa* (म्लेच्छदेश).
One shall not perform a *śrāddha* (श्राद्ध) in a *mlecchadeśa* (म्लेच्छदेश) (land of barbarians).
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Marginalized social groups (outcastes, criminals, foreigners, and persons of disapproved mixed birth) explicitly excluded from the ordinary monetary-fine protection against physical assault.
For beating untouchables, rogues, slaves, barbarians (*mlecchas*), sinners, and those born of mixed unions against the natural order, there is no monetary fine.
Manusmṛti
A group or peoples situated beyond the sacred land, outside Vedic ritual geography.
the land of the Mlecchas lies beyond that.