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Chandala ( Sanskerta : चण्डाल code: sa is deprecated ) adalah kata bahasa Sanskerta untuk seseorang yang berurusan dengan pembuangan mayat , dan merupakan kasta rendah Hindu , ^{[ 1 ]} yang secara tradisional dianggap . ^{[ 2 ] [ 3 ]}

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1. ^ Viswanath, Rupa (2014). The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India . Columbia University Press. hlm. 268. ISBN 978-0-23116-306-4 . Panchama means "of the fifth," and therefore outside the fourfold classical system of caste, or . , similarly means those outside the varna system. Chandala is a term referring to "unclean" castes and is used as a vlur in many parts of India.
2. ^ Chandrashekhar Bhat (1984). Ethnicity and Mobility . Concept publishing. hlm. 2– 3.
3. ^ S. M. Michael (1999). Untouchable: Dalits in Modern India . Lynne Rienner Publishers. hlm. 3– 4. ISBN 9781555876975 .

• Anna Dallapiccola, Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend , Thames & Hudson, 2004 ISBN 0-500-51088-1