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	Broken Men
		The Chandalas are named 'evil men' and dwell apart from others; if they enter a town or market, they sound a piece of wood in order to separate themselves; then, men knowing they are, avoid coming in contact with them.
		The Chandala is not a good case to determine the existence or non-existence of Untouchability.
		The Brahmins have regarded the Chandalas as their hereditary enemies and are prone to attribute to them abominable conduct; hurl at them low epithets and manufacture towards them a mode of behaviour which is utterly artificial to suit their venom against them.
	www.saxakali.com /southasia/broken.htm (3618 words)

	Caste - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		As society developed (after the heights reached by Harappan culture, the Aryan period initially represented a considerable step backwards), the area under settled agriculture expanded, and trade and the arts began to flourish, resulting in the slow rise of the Shudras into the roles of cultivators of the land, and skilled artisans.
		Manual work was regarded as essentially unclean, and those associated with it could not be allowed to enter into intimate contact with the higher castes, and in particular with the Brahmins, who performed religious ceremonies before which they, too, had to purify themselves by bathing.
		Thus, in addition to the taboo on intercaste marriage, the Chandalas, in particular, were not to be allowed near the preparation of food for higher castes, or even into temples (especially in South India).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761565041___3/Caste.html (1044 words)

	Chandala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chandala or Chandal is an opprobrious term, reserved for a despised and enslaved group of indigenous people of India in the elite Sanskritic literature.
		We have Carmanna (a tanner of hides) in the Rig Veda (VIII.8,38) the Chandala and Paulkasa occur in Vaj.
		Chandala as a term of despised caste was used even in Dravidian speaking South India and amongst the Prakrit speaking colonists from North India in Sri Lanka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chandala (556 words)

	::: Star Weekend Magazine ::: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Untouchables like Chandalas, Kaibartas and Doms, though serving the Aryans in the most menial and dirtiest tasks, were completely excluded from their social order.
		What was for the Chandalas a racist humiliation could, on the other hand, be a reasonable disease prevention measure to safeguard the conquering race.
		A majority of the population of this land still seems to be comprised of Chandalas, their descendants and inheritors, if not by blood, of course by virtue of uncouth culture and behaviour.
	www.thedailystar.net /magazine/2005/02/03/musings.htm (1059 words)

	ReligionAndSpirituality.com - Hinduism Commentaries
		Chandala is the term used in some Hindu scriptures.
		Karma Chandala referred to the status achieved because of certain kinds of actions, such as the killing of a Brahmin, sleeping with the wife of the teacher or consuming liquor.
		This is a reflection of the utter lack of attention or interest on the part of the governments, both at the federal and the state levels, to deal with issues of sanitation, infrastructure and modernization.
	www.religionandspirituality.com /hinduism/view.php?StoryID=20060606-105641-6370r (1685 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Opinion \| How the Buddha saved the "untouchables"
		Sunita was a Chandala in Rajgaha in ancient India.
		He may not have washed from a long time, because a chandala could not approach, let alone drink the water, or wash himself with water from a well in Rajagaha, without being castigated for soiling the wells, which were meant only for the people of the higher casts.
		I am a Chandala my lord, I have all my life been given orders, and had never been addressed so kindly as you do.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=8,3323,0,0,1,0 (668 words)

	Agni Purana: Manvantaras, Varnashrama, and Vratas
		Chandalas were born this way from brahmana women, Sutas from kshatriya women, Devalas from vaishya women, Pukkashas from kshatriya women and Magadhas from vaishya women.
		Chandalas are executioneers, Sutas charioteers, Devalas guards, Pukkashas hunters and Magadhas bards.
		Chandalas should live outside the villages and should not touch those belonging to any other class.
	www.indiadivine.org /hinduism/articles/182/1/Agni-Purana-Manvantaras-Varnashrama-and-Vratas (2422 words)

	rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/Dr Kancha Ilaiah
		The Hindu religion and the Hindutva movement describe all Sudras, Chandalas and Adivasis as Hindus.
		In the Bhagwad Gita, God says I have created four Varnas and the Sudra, Chandalas and Adivasis were created to serve the Brahmins.
		Because they fear that the Sudras, Chandalas and Adivasis may get empowered with the new English education that the Christians are giving to our people.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/jan/17inter.htm (1547 words)

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		Chandala could not even come into a town in the daytime.
		A Chandala's sole possessions could only be a donkey and a dog.
		Chandala were to hear Brahmin teachings molten iron was to be poured into his
	www.proudblackbuddhist.org /Chandala/Page_6x.html (504 words)

	Ravnos - World of Darkness Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meanwhile, unknown to the other clans, Ravnos arrived with the Rroma; these Ravnos were chandalas, almost the Ravnos equivalent of Caitiff, but still felt superior to their mongrel cousins.
		Chandalas were the Ravnos equivalent of Caitiff; and Caitiff in India were automatically classified as Chandalas.
		Demotion to Chandala status was a common punishment for heresy.
	wiki.white-wolf.com /worldofdarkness/index.php/Ravnos (1447 words)

	Mahasarpa: Introduction - Brennor's RPG Corner Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A rigid class structure divides the people into four varnas (castes), plus the chandalas (“untouchables”) who are outside and below the varnas proper.
		Below even the shudras, and technically outside the varna system altogether, are the chandalas, or “untouchables.” The chandalas perform the tasks that make them unclean, much like the eta of Rokugan—tasks such as cremating the dead or butchering meat.
		The chandalas are “untouchable” because a member of a higher caste must undergo ritual cleansing if she comes into physical contact with a member of this group.
	brennor.dyndns.org /wiki/index.php/Mahasarpa:_Introduction (1269 words)

	Ancient racism, from the guys who invented it.
		Chandalas seem to be originally a primitive tribe who came rather late into the orbit of the developing village society.
		But the dwellings of Chandalas and Svapakas (scavengers -cleaners) shall be outside the village,..., and their wealth (shall be) dogs and donkeys.
		Their dress (shall be) the garments of the dead, (they shall eat) their food from broken dishes, fl iron (shall be) their ornaments, and they must always wander from place to place.
	www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/tree/21/pplmanu.htm (2398 words)

	Ravnos - White Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meanwhile, unknown to the other clans, Ravnos arrived with the Rroma; these Ravnos were chandalas, almost the Ravnos equivalent of Caitiff, but still felt superior to their mongrel cousins.
		Chandalas were the Ravnos equivalent of Caitiff; and Caitiff in India were automatically classified as Chandalas.
		Demotion to Chandala status was a common punishment for heresy.
	whitewolf.wikia.com /wiki/Ravnos (1569 words)

	Vedamu.org - Vedic Literature - Course
		It appears that the chandalas are regarded as being outside the pale of society.
		In the description of the layout of the city, the chandalas are allotted accommodation ‘at the end of or near the cremation-ground’ along with the pasandas or heretical monks.
		It may be that the chandala and other out-castes alone are allotted accommodation at the end of or near the cremation-ground.
	www.vedamu.org /VedicLiterature/English/Ethics/KautilyaInArthasastra2.asp (9561 words)

	Mahabharata Of Vyasa, A Complete Translation By Kisari Mohan Gaguly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this connection is cited the old story of the discourse between Viswamitra and the Chandala in a hamlet inhabited by Chandalas.
		The Chandala who owned it, with eyes covered with phlegm, was lying like one asleep.
		"The Chandala said, 'That learned person who takes away dog's meat from an unworthy place (like this), from an unclean wretch (like me), from one who (like me) leads such a wicked life, commits an act that is opposed to the behaviour of those that are called good.
	www.bharatadesam.com /spiritual/mahabharata/mahabharata_12a140.php (3109 words)

	Matangi
		She took the form of a beautiful outcaste girl, a member of the wild hunter-gatherer tribe known as the Chandalas.
		She was dressed all in red, Her body lean, Her eyes large, Her breasts full -- and She began a seductive dance by the lakeside, near the place where Shiva sat.
		Parvati told Him, "Since You made love to Me in the form of a Chandala girl, She will henceforth be one of My permanent forms, to be known as Ucchista Chandalini." That is, Matangi, the Outcaste Goddess, who governs all that is leftover and polluted.
	shaktisadhana.50megs.com /Newhomepage/shakti/maatangi.html (1267 words)

	indiayogi.com - Indian Saints, Mystics, Philosophers & Gurus - Adi Shankara - the lion of Vedanta
		Returning from his mid day bath in the Ganga, and thus in a state of unusual ritual purity, the master and pupils found a Chandala in their path.
		The chandalas are the untouchable castes, even the shadow of whom is supposed to pollute the brahmin.
		It is a measure of his greatness that he could do so unhesitatingly and a measure of the degeneration of India that this story is still a valid one in a social context.
	www.indiayogi.com /content/indsaints/shankara1.asp (1242 words)

	chakra mandala gallery
		Although some Chandala images are wheel or circle shaped, some are also egg shaped, suggestive of the human aura.
		Whether wheel or egg shaped, and regardless of various myths and beliefs, these kaleidoscopic Chandalas often evoke a sense of the mystical, the spiritual and the sublime.
		The Chandalas in this gallery are all egg shaped as they more easily fit into standard sized mats and frames.
	www.openmindcounseling.com /chakra_mandala_gallery.htm (496 words)

	rantlust » Blog Archive » The Nairs
		A person from the Chandala category joining the warriors or performing a pooja at his home won’t upgrade him to a Nair or a Brahmin.
		Perhaps this Chandala soul has a chance to live a Spiritual and moral life this time (by obeying the scriptures), and consequently getting a higher birth in the next.
		The Chandalas or Caṇḍālas came about (as was pointed out earlier) as result of the union between a Brahmin woman and a Shudra man. They joined the other “untouchables.”; Expanding further, not all untouchables are Chandalas.
	www.rantlust.com /anupcs/2005/09/13/the-nairs (14610 words)

	Dalit Samakhya - Fight against Hunger, Untouchability and Atrocity
		According to Vedas, the Hindu society is divided into four Varnas associated with particular social occupations; Brahmin (priest and teacher), Kshatriya (ruler and warrior) Vaishya (trader) and Sudra (servant).
		But the dwelling of the Chandalas and Shwapakas shall be outside the village, they must be made Apapataras and their wealth (shall be) dogs and donkeys.
		Their dress (shall be) the garments of the dead, (they shall eat) their food from broken dishes, fl iron (shall be) their ornaments, they must always wander from place to place.
	www.dalitsamakhya.org /who.htm (1500 words)

	Chinese Vegetarianism: Buddhist Roots - The Fa-Hsien Account
		That is the name for those who are (held to be) wicked men, and live apart from others.
		In that country they do not keep pigs and fowls, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butchers' shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink.
		Only the Chandalas are fishermen and hunters, and sell flesh meat.
	www.headcity.com /uptown/bigmouth/hungry/chinese/fa-hsien.html (308 words)

	The Pioneer > Columnists
		When Yajnavalkya I.93 or Gautama IV.20 say the Chandala is outside dharma, it only meant he was excluded from Vedic rites such as the upanayana (sacred thread), and not that he was prohibited from reverencing Hindu deities or released from adherence to the Hindu moral code.
		It was society, for reasons historians must decide, that began differentiating between Shudras and castes like Chandalas, and added a growing number of castes to a list of 'untouchables'; the sastras do not legitimise these practices.
		Given this explicit inclusion of all castes within the fold of dharma and temple worship, it is unfortunate that the ugly face of Hindu arrogance has risen, for the second time in two years, in Orissa's Kendrapara district.
	www.dailypioneer.com /columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=JAIN106%2Etxt&writer=JAIN&validit=yes (1048 words)

	Dzogchen Master 4 - Jnanasutra
		Jnanasutra was born an outcaste of Chandala family in the land of Kamashila, Eastern India.
		Part of the duties of the Chandalas were as executioners and thus Jnanasutra's father was called Zhiwailak, Peaceful Hand.
		Jnanasutra became a scholar monk and traveled to Bodhigaya.
	www.kathok.org.sg /masters/dzogchen/4_jnana.htm (340 words)

	Papers: Antichrist of the Fens
		goodness is the rising power of will; happiness is the feeling of overcoming the bondage of the chandala (slave) morality.
		This is Gardner's rendering of Nietzsche's claim that religion is the defender of the weak, the outcasts and the sinners.
		It is the chandala morality of the priests.
	www.grendel.org /grendel/papers/wachtrhein.html (1038 words)

	Varna
		And caste itself devolved into a racial differentiation between the conquerors and the conquered, with colour as the most visible distinction.
		Apart from the four named castes, there was another category of people called Chandalas.
		These were the outcastes or untouchables that were considered beyond the pale of the system.
	www.gurjari.net /ico/Mystica/html/varna.htm (553 words)

	The Hindu : Attacks on Christians
		Almost no conversion from the dalits and the tribals to Christianity could have happened if only these Hindutva's negative elements had turned their attention to the still prevalent denial of human rights to these sections and had done something to give them some dignity.
		The main disgraceful and destructive teaching in the Aryan Hindu culture is the utter indignity proclaimed on the Chandalas.
		These Chandalas or the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India and builders of the ancient Indian civilisations.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/06/13/stories/05131305.htm (687 words)

	Agni Purana: Dreams, Omens, and the Instructions of Rama
		It is also bad to dream of marriages, singing, the killing of snakes and the killing of chandalas or animals.
		Other examples are: where the dreamer dreams that he is playing with monkeys or chandalas, when he dreams that devas, brahmanas, the king or the guru is angry or when he dreams that his house had collapsed.
		Such bad omens are cotton, dried grass, cowdung, coal, molasses, leather, hair, a lunatic, a chandala, a widow, a dead body, ashes, bones and a broken vessel.
	www.indiadivine.org /hinduism/articles/184/1/Agni-Purana-Dreams-Omens-and-the-Instructions-of-Rama (2065 words)

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