Critically examine the duties laid down in ‘Manusmriti’ for the Chandals.
The duties laid down in ‘Manusmriti’ for the Chandals:
(i) They had to live outside the village.
(ii) They had to use discarded utensils.
(iii) They had to wear clothes of the dead and ornaments of iron.
(iv) They could not walk about in villages and cities at night.
(v) They had to dispose of the bodies of those who had no relatives and serve as executioners.