[15] Here it appears that the Sudra is identified with the sweeper or scavenger, the most debased and impure of modern Hindu castes.

[16] In the Dharmashastras or law-books it is laid down that a person taking a Sudra's food for a month becomes a Sudra and after death becomes a dog.

Issue begotten after eating a Sudra's food is of the Sudra caste.

A person who dies with Sudra's food in his stomach becomes a village pig, or is reborn in a Sudra's family.

[17] An Arya who had sexual intimacy with a Sudra woman was to be banished; but a Sudra having intimacy with an Arya was to be killed.