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Mleccha
Mleccha (from Vedic Sanskrit ' meaning "non-Vedic", "barbarian", also romanized as "Mlechchha" or "Maleccha") referred to people of foreign extraction in ancient India. ''Mleccha'' was used much as ''bárbaros'' () was used in Classical antiquity: originally to indicate the uncouth and incomprehensible speech of foreigners and then extended to their unfamiliar behaviour, and also used as a derogatory term in the sense of "impure and/or "inferior" people.
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The ''Vayu'', ''Matsya'' and ''Brahmanda Purana''s state that the seven Himalayan rivers pass through mleccha countries. The ''Brahmana''s place mlecchas outside the varna system. Southworth suggests that the name comes from ''miḻi-'' "speak, one's speech", derived from one of the Dravidian languages and related to the Tamil language#Etymology|etymology of the word ''Tamiḻ''. The term ''Mencha'', probably a tadbhava, was also used by the medieval Marathi saint Samarth Ramdas, a Hindu sant, author and Advaita Vedanta philosopher, to refer to the invading Mughals, who were both Muslims and ruled by Mongols.
Pali, the older Prakrit used by Theravada Buddhism, uses the term ''milakkha''. It also employs ''milakkhu'', a borrowing from a Dramatic Prakrit.
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