74 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
All those tribes in this world, which are excluded from (the community of) those born from the mouth, the arms, the thighs, and the feet (of Brahman), are called Dasyus, whether they speak the language of the Mlenchhas (barbarians) or that of the Aryans.
Near well-known trees and burial ground, on mountains and in groves, let these (tribes) dwell, known (by certain marks), and subsisting by their peculiar occupations.
But the dwelling of the Chandalas and Shwapakas shall be outside the village, they must be made Apapatras 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, black iron (shall be) their ornaments, they must always wander from place to place.
A man who fulfils a religious duty, shall not seek intercourse with them; their transactions (shall be) among themselves, and their marriages with their equals.
Their food shall be given to them by others (than an Aryan giver) in a broken dish; at night they shall not walk about in villages and in towns.
By day they must go about for the purpose of their work, distinguished by marks at the King’s command, and they shall carry out the corpses (of persons) who have no relatives, that is a settled rule.
By the King’s order they shall always execute the Criminals in accordance with the law, and they shall take for themselves the clothes, the beds and the ornaments of (such) criminals.
He who has had connection with a woman of one of the lowest castes shall be put to death.
If one who (being a member of the Chandala or some other low caste) must not be touched, intentionally defiles by his touch one who (as a member of a twice born caste) may be touched (by other twice born persons only) he shall be put to death.
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(1) Manu X.45 (2) Ibid., X.50; (3) Ibid., X.51; (4) Ibid., X.52; (5) Ibid., X.53; (6) Ibid., X.54; (7) Ibid., X.55. (8) Ibid., X.56; (9) Vishnu V.43: (10) Vishnu V.104.