antyaja

1 A Śūdra or man of the fourth tribe.

2 A man of one of seven inferior tribes; a washerman, currier, mimic, Varūra, fisherman, Meda or attendant on women, and mountaineer or forester.

E. antya inferior, and ja who is born: born from the feet of BRAHMĀ; also antyajāta.

youngest (? comp. antaja).

2. m. (-jaḥ) A man of the lowest tribe; the same

as antya.

3. f. (-jā) A woman of the lowest tribe; the same as

antyā. [This word (2. and 3.) is explained in various ways.

Vijnāneśvara identifies it sometimes with cāṇḍāla, in other

places he and Kullūka explain it cāṇḍālādi ‘Chāṇḍāla

and so on’. Of more distinct definitions the following may

be noticed: that of Yama, who comprises under the term

antyajāḥ a washerman, a worker in leather, a dancer, a

Varuḍa, a fisherman, a Meda or attendant on women, and

a Bhilla (rajakaścarmakāraśca naṭo varuḍa eva ca . kaivartameda-

bhillāśca saptaite hyantyajāḥ smṛtāḥ); of Samvarta, who com-

prises under it a washerman, a hunter, an actor, a flute-

player and a worker in leather (rajakavyādhaśailūṣaveṇucarmopa-

jīvinām &c.); of Āpastamba, who enumerates a Chāṇḍāla,

a Meda, a Śvapacha or Śvapāka (the son of an Ugrā woman

by a Kshattriya male) and a man who belongs to the Kāpā-

lika worshippers of Śiva (cāṇḍālamedaśvapacakapālavratacāri-

ṇām &c.); of another lawbook which names, a Chāṇḍāla, a

Pukkaśa, a Mlechchha, a Śvapāka and a man who has be-

come an outcast (cāṇḍālaṃ puṣkasaṃ mlecchaṃ śvapākaṃ patitaṃ tathā).

In a similar manner Śātātapa speaks of antyajā women as

of kaivartī rajakīṃ caiva veṇucarmopajīvinīm; Āpastamba as of

mlecchī naṭī carmakārī rajakī varuḍī tathā, and Uśanas', ‘wife

of a man who eats the food of a Kāpālika’ (kāpālikānna-

bhoktṝṇāṃ tannārī°) refers probably also to the antyajā.--

Halayudha who calls the Śūdra antyavarṇa, enumerates the

following under the head of antajāti (the same as antyaja):

‘antāvasāyī caṇḍālo niṣādaśca jalaṅgamaḥ . śvapacaḥ pukkaśa-

ścaiva mātaṅgaḥ plavagaḥ smṛtaḥ .. kirātāḥ śabarā niṣṭhyāḥ pulindā

nāhalā bhaṭāḥ mālā mlecchādayo bhillāḥ kathyante hyantajātayaḥ’.]

Comp. antyajanman and antyajāti. E. antya and ja.

f. jā, Born in the lowest class, Man.

8, 385. II. m. A man of the lowest

tribe, Pañc. i. d. 452. III. f. jā, A

woman of the lowest class, Man. 11, 58.

mfn. (-jaḥ-jā-jaṃ) Younger, latest born.

m. (-jaḥ)

1. A Sūdra or
man of the fourth tribe.

2. A man of one of seven inferior
tribes; a washerman, currier, mimic, Varuḍa, fisherman, Meda
or attendant on women, and mountaineer or forester.

E. antya in-
ferior, and ja who is born: born from the feet of BRAHMĀ; also
antyajāta.

a war-like class of people.

In battle they never turned back; they

therefore deserved always to be placed in

the front of the army; they either got killed

or killed others; they did not much care for

the rules of war, they broke away from

the proper way of conduct; their defeat

was beneficial (to their opponent); they

often got angry with the king (antyajā

hy anivartinaḥ/puraskāryāḥ sadā sainye

hanyante ghnanti cāpi te//adhārmikā

bhinnavṭttāḥ sādhv evaiṣāṃ parābhavaḥ/

evam eva prakupyanti rājño 'py ete hy

abhīkṣṇaśaḥ//) 12. 102. 19-20 (Nī. on

Bom. Ed. 12. 101. 19: prāntadeśodbhavāḥ

kaivartabhillādayaḥ; S. K. Belvalkar:

“belonging to borderlands or outlying dis-

tricts”, critical note on the stanza Vol. 13,

p. 672).