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Rh "The son begotten by a Vaisya on a Kshatriya woman, a Paulkasa.

"The son begotten by a Kshatriya on a Brahman woman becomes a Suta.

"Children begotten by Brahmans, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas on women of the next lower, second lower, and third lower castes become respectively Ambashthas, Ugras, and Nishadas.

"The son of a Brahman and a Sudra woman is a Parasava."

Here we have an authoritative statement which may well stagger the most faithful believer. Magadhas and Vaidehas, who were different races, Chandalas and Paulkasas, who were undoubtedly non-Aryan tribes, and even Yavanas, who were Bactrian Greeks and foreigners, were all treated by the same general and rigid law which recognized no exception, and were all declared to be descended from