The lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status.
1So I wrote to them saying that I was in a position to prove that you had taken the daughter of a sudra to wife.
2The Sudra appealed to me, so did the countless devotees and victims.
3The Sudra alone cannot employ his body or utter mantras in sacrifices.
4But the Brahmin and the Sudra may both be converted to Christianity.
5The Sudra should have only one wife taken from his own order.
6If a Brahmana acts otherwise, he should be punished like a Sudra.
7The Kshatriya may take a third wife from the Sudra order.
8Unto the sonless Sudra his master should offer the funeral cake.
9A Sudra of the name of Pasusakha married Ganda and became her husband.
10In the Sudra order, again, one has to wander for a long time.
11His third wife being of the Sudra order is regarded as very inferior.
12Then again Brahmanas are the foremost of gods unto their respective Sudra attendants.
13Such a Brahmana becomes invested with the status of a Sudra.
14By such service of the other three, a Sudra may obtain great happiness.
15I should tell thee, O Bharata, what the duties of a Sudra are.
16O puissant one, I was a Sudra possessed of great wealth.