mleccha
म्लेच्छ mlecchaIn the classical texts, a person outside Vedic and aryavarta order; a 'barbarian' or outsider, historically applied to foreign peoples and invaders.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
It was made a dynastic goddess by successive rulers: the Mlecchas, the Palas under whom the Kalika Purana took shape, and above all the Koch, who left us the documented 1565 rebuild, and the Ahoms after them.
- When will Kalki come, and what will he look like? Journal
He gathers Brahmins around him. He destroys the mlecchas , a word we will come back to.
- Śabda eternal Treatise
… the image of the barbarian in early India, published in 1971, treats mleccha as a category for those outside the ritual and linguistic order, with unintelligible speech at the centre of the definition.
- Śavaripa the hunter Treatise
In Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita Śabara is a subdivision of the mlecchas , and the mlecchas are people who do not know even the word dharma .
- The word they were given Treatise
From her foam, a long line of others: Puṇḍras, Kirātas, Dramiḍas, Siṃhalas, Barbaras, Daradas, Mlecchas.