a. [caṃḍ-ālac] Wicked or cruel in deeds, of black deeds (krūra- karman); cf. karmacāḍāla. laḥ A gene- ral name for the lowest and most [Page0482-c+ 56] despised of the mixed castes origi- nating from a Śūdra father and a Brāhmaṇa mother.

2 A man of this caste, an outcast, caṃḍālaḥ kimayaṃ dvi- ja tirathavā Bh. 3. 56; Ms. 5. 131; 10. 12, 16; 11. 176. Comp. valla- kī the lute of a Cāṇḍāla, a com- mon or vulgar...