08-29-2006, 10:47 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Aug 29 2006, 01:55 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Aug 29 2006, 01:55 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mlechchha may have historically meant a race of people - which the latest researches may dig out. But traditionally, this world has come to somehow mean 'unclean'. I was using the term in same spirit. Hard to do away the usage from the yore.
One website says regarding this term:
Mleccha: offensive meateater.
- A foreigner, barbarian, man of an outcast race.
- Any person who does not speak Sanskrit and does not conform to the usual Hindu institutions.
- A person who lives by agriculture or by making weapons.
- A wicked or bad man, a sinner.
- He who eats beef and indulges in self-contradictory statements and is devoid of righteousness and purity of conduct (according the law-giver Baudhâyana).
- Copper; vermilion.
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Bodhi,
Traditionally the word Mllecha signifies a person who has no "Hindu Jaati". This is why it was used for foreigners who had no Jaati.
Also in ancient times a person could loose his jaati by doing or not doing a certain things.
-Digvijay
One website says regarding this term:
Mleccha: offensive meateater.
- A foreigner, barbarian, man of an outcast race.
- Any person who does not speak Sanskrit and does not conform to the usual Hindu institutions.
- A person who lives by agriculture or by making weapons.
- A wicked or bad man, a sinner.
- He who eats beef and indulges in self-contradictory statements and is devoid of righteousness and purity of conduct (according the law-giver Baudhâyana).
- Copper; vermilion.
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Bodhi,
Traditionally the word Mllecha signifies a person who has no "Hindu Jaati". This is why it was used for foreigners who had no Jaati.
Also in ancient times a person could loose his jaati by doing or not doing a certain things.
-Digvijay