Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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10.50. Near well-known trees and burial-grounds, on mountains and in groves, let these (tribes) dwell, known
(by certain marks), and subsisting by their peculiar occupations.
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10.51. But the dwellings of Kandalas and Svapakas shall be outside the village, they must be made Apapatras,
and their wealth (shall be) dogs and donkeys.
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10.52. Their dress (shall be) the garments of the dead, (they shall eat) their food from broken dishes, black iron
(shall be) their ornaments, and they must always wander from place to place.
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10.53. 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.
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10.54. 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.
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10.55. By day they may 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.
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10.56. 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.
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10.57. A man of impure origin, who belongs not to any caste, (varna, but whose character is) not known, who,
(though) not an Aryan, has the appearance of an Aryan, one may discover by his acts.
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10.58. Behaviour unworthy of an Aryan, harshness, cruelty, and habitual neglect of the prescribed duties betray
in this world a man of impure origin.
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10.59. A base-born man either resembles in character his father, or his mother, or both; he can never conceal his
real nature.
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