Timeline for When did untouchability start?
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| Feb 24 at 1:39 | comment | added | Haridasa | @SayNoToCensorship I believe Haridattas commentary on this Dharmasutras stated Chandala was a word equivalent to thief although they could've been tribals. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 0:23 | comment | added | ram | i knew you would ask this already, so i posted comment to OP above | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 20:25 | comment | added | Say No To Censorship | 'if a brahmin has not taken bath, another brahmin who has taken bath must not touch him' -- on the untouchability meter, does this rate lower/equal/higher than seeing/touching/talking to a caṇḍāla? At some point the argument will end with 'but you are born a caṇḍāla' - how can one defend that? | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 19:57 | comment | added | ram | You should also add that untouchability is also practiced WITHIN a varna - and not simply as a poster-child to say higher castes discriminated against lower castes. For e.g., if a brahmin has not taken bath, another brahmin who has taken bath must not touch him. If a brahmin has eaten food, another brahmin must not touch him until he has washed up. If they do, they have to bathe, only then they become clean. The point is shoucha-achara - to be clean. And in that aspect, shastras do not discriminate at all. | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 16:18 | history | answered | Say No To Censorship | CC BY-SA 3.0 |