X. ^ jhat lowest of mortals^ the Mdgadhay the Cskattn

^ by tribe;, and the Ay6gava.
27. ^ These six beget similar sons on women of ^ their own clajsses^ or on women of the same class ^ with their mothers ; and they produce the like from ^ women of the two highest classes, and of the low- ^ est:
28. ^ As a twice-born son may spring from a ^ Brdhmen by women of two classes out of three, a ^ similar son, when there is no interval, and an equal ^ son from a woman of his own class, it is thus in ^ the case of the low tribes in order.
29. * Those six beget, on women of their own tribes, ^ reciprocally, very many despicable and abject races ^ even more foul than their begetters.
30. ^ Even as a Sddra begets, on a Brdhmev^-^wo- ^ man, a son more vile than himself, thus any other
* low man begets, on women of the four classes, a
* son yet lower.
31. ^ The six low classes, marrying inversely, beget
* fifteen yet lower tribes, the base producing still ' baser; and in a direct order they produce fifteen mx^re.
32. ^ A Dasyuy or outcast of any pure class, begets ^ on an -^yc^avl-woman a Sairindhra, who should ^ know how to attend -and to dress his master; though ^ not a slave, he must live by •slavish work, and
^ may
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^ may also gain subsistence by catching wild beasts chap. ' in toils : ^
33. ^ A VaidSha begets on her a sweet-voiced Mai- ^ trhfiMXLy who, ringing a bell at the appearance of ^ dawn, continually praises great men:
34. ^ A NishAda begets on her a MdrgavOy or Ddsa, ^ who subsists by his labour in boats, and is named
* Cmve7'ta by those, who dwell in A'ryAvertaj or the
* land of the vefieruble.
35. ^ Those three of a base tribe are severally be- ' gotten on j^ydgavi-womeriy who wear the clothes of ^ the deceased and eat reprehensible food.
36. * From a Nishdda springs by a woman of the
* Ysad&iSL'tribe, a Cdrdvara, who cuts leather, and ^ from a Vaid^ha spring by women of the Cdr^vara
* and Nishdda-ecr^fe, an uindhra and a Mida^ who ^ must live without the town.
37. ^ From a Chanddla by a ^td/Ai-woman, comes / a Pdndasdpdcaj who works with cane and reeds; ^ and from a Nishddoy an Ahindica^ who acts as a
* jailor.
38. ^ From a Chanddhy by a Ptecea«i-woman, is ^ bom a Sdpdca, who lives by punishing criminals
* condemned by the king, a mnful wretdi ever de- ^ spised by the virtuous.
39. ^ A Ni»hddl-vrcmaay by a* Chanddla, produces a ^ son called Antydvasdyin, employed in places for
2 Y ^ burning
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CHAP. ^ burning the dead, contemned even by the con-