08-28-2006, 08:25 PM
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.
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.