Śūdra

By marrying a Śūdra woman, a Brāhmaṇa falls, according to Atri and the son of Utathya;

In no sacred text whatsoever is a Śūdra woman ordained as a wife for a Brāhmaṇa or a Kṣatriya, even when they are in distress.

If a Vaiśya and a Śūdra arrive at the house as guests, he should feed them along with his servants, showing them kindness.

For Śūdras, it is on the twelfth day, but without mantras.

A month for a Śūdra.

A Śūdra, one.

One should not give the leftovers of the *śrāddha* (श्राद्ध) to *śūdras* (शूद्रस्) or to wicked people.

One should not, with effort, feed a *śūdra* (शूद्र) in the house on the day of a *śrāddha* (श्राद्ध).

one who sacrifices only for a Śūdra, one nourished by a Śūdra, one who lives in a Śūdra's house, one devoted to accepting gifts from a Śūdra, and one who is a perpetual beggar, // Ang_1.

Those of the Śūdra and other classes who are without a surety should be bound in fetters.

A Śūdra should be diligently avoided.

Women should give evidence for women, similar twice-born for the twice-born, virtuous Śūdras for Śūdras, and those of the lowest castes for the lowest castes.

These three are declared to be the sons of a Śūdra woman from the three higher classes.

A Śūdra woman may likewise have three other husbands in the reverse order of the classes.

In the marriage of Brāhmaṇas, Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras, a wife of one's own class is best, and for a woman, a husband of her own class.

the former is purified by a Kṛcchra penance, the Śūdra is purified by charity.

He who kills an artisan, a craftsman, a Śūdra, or a woman should perform two *Prājāpatya* penances, and the sacrificial fee is eleven bulls.

For killing a Vaiśya or a Śūdra devoted to their duties, or a foremost *dvija* engaged in improper acts, the penance is the Cāndrāyaṇa, and the sacrificial fee is thirty cows.

De Tocqueville has strongly suggested, and others after him will probably demonstrate, that the enormous social prestige of the French Court and its constant indulgence of its military tastes had at length turned the French territorial nobility into a caste as distinct from the cultivating peasantry as is the Rajput from the Sudra, as distinct as was the white planter of the Southern States from t …

it is not even certain from some passages whether the lowest and most despised of castes, the Sudras, are always excluded.

thus a Śūdra’s activity is commerce.

The work of a *Śūdra* is to trade by sea, to sell and to buy.

[Slo_78j§4] Furthermore, the *Śūdra* are traders.

And this injunction of the forenoon in an *āmaśrāddha* applies only to an *āmaśrāddha* performed by a twice-born, not to an *āmaśrāddha* performed by a Śūdra.

Because in a performance during the day by a twice-born, since uncooked food is not fixed, and in a performance by a Śūdra, it is fixed, an injunction of the forenoon in both cases would lead to the undesirable consequence of a conflict between an obligatory and a non-obligatory connection.

And it should not be argued that since Kātyāyana has enjoined, "For all the social classes, the Sapiṇḍana is at the end of the impurity period," and since a Śūdra has an impurity period of a month, and since the tenth of the body-completing *piṇḍas* is enjoined for him at the end of the impurity period, how can the Sapiṇḍana for a Śūdra be on the twelfth day?

one who feeds Śūdras or ascetics at a rite for the gods or Ancestors, one who takes an improper oath, and an unqualified person who performs a qualified person's work;

For one who puts out both eyes of another, for one who carries out a command hostile to the king, and for a Śūdra who lives by pretending to be a Brāhmaṇa, the fine is eight hundred.

the middle for a Kṣatriya, the lowest for a Vaiśya, and half of that for a Śūdra.

Those who come struck by poisoned arrows — both Śūdras and Rājanya men — all appearing before my eyes, they go back free of disease.

This indeed they declare — the supplicants, the Śūdras, and the Āryas alike:

from his feet the Śūdra was born.

By the very act of intercourse with a Śūdra woman, a twice-born begets a child of her nature;

/ by the very act of intercourse with a Śūdra woman, he becomes fallen.

A wretch of a Brahmin who has begotten a child on a Śūdra woman, / the king should make that man, guilty of the sin of contact, live outside the village.

and the śūdras, engaged in their own prescribed duty, were in service to the three varṇas.

and even a Śūdra attains greatness.