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All authorities concur in deriving the Chdndala from 

 a Sudra father and Brahmeni mother. His profeffion 

 is carrying out corpfes, and executing criminals ; and 

 officiating in other abject employments for public fer- 

 vice. 



A third fet of Indian claffes originate from the inter- 

 marriages of the rirft and fecond fet : a few only have 

 been, named by Menu; and, excepting the Abhira> 

 or milkman, they are not noticed by the other autho- 

 rities to which I refer. But the Purdna names other 

 claffes of this fet. 



A fourth fet is derived from intercourfe between the 

 feveral claffes of the fecond fet : of thefe alfo few have 

 been named by Menu ; and one only of the fifth fet, 

 fpringing from intermarriages of the fecond and third 

 fet; and another of the fixth fet, derived from inter- 

 courfe between claffes of the fecond and fourth fet. 

 Menu adds to thefe claffes four fons of outcafts. 



The 7 'antra enumerates many other claffes, which 

 muff be placed in lower fets *, and afcribes a different 

 origin to fome of the claffes in the third and fourth 



fets. 



Thefe differences may be readily apprehended from 

 the comparative table annexed. To purfue a verbofe 

 companion would be tedious, and of little ufe; per- 

 haps, of none ; for I fufpecT: that their origin is fanciful ; 

 and, except the mixed claffes named by Menu, that 

 the reft are terms for profeffions rather than claffes ; and 

 they mould be confidered as denoting companies of ar- 

 tifans, rather than diftinct races. The mode in which 

 Amera Sinha mentions the mixed claffes and the 

 profeffions of artifans, feems to fupport this conjec- 

 ture. 



However, 



* See the annexed rule formed by our late venerable Prefident. 



