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Define the following terms.
a. Chandalas
b.sabha
c. Nagaram
d.Ur
e.Mahajanas​

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Answered by aditikanwadkar
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a. Chandala is a Sanskrit word for someone who deals with disposal of corpses, and is a Hindu lower caste, traditionally considered to be untouchable.

b. A sabhā in Ancient India was an assembly, congregation, or council. Personified as a deity, Sabhā is a daughter of Prajapati in the Atharvaveda. The term has also given rise to modern terms of Parliament of India, such as Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and the Indian states' Legislative Assembly, Vidhan Sabha.

c. In medieval Tamil country, starting from the eighth-ninth centuries, nagaram was the town, where merchants conducted commercial activities, through a corporate body called either as nagaram or nagarattār.

d. Ur was a city in the region of Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, in what is modern-day Iraq. The city's other biblical link is to the patriarch Abraham who left Ur to settle in the land of Canaan.

e. Mahajanas are the twelve delegated agents of the Lord Vishnu who have the duty to bring to the people the message to follow the path of devotional service. The word means "great persons", and was also used for administrators or officials of the Western Chalukyas rulers.

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