سنكر

सं कर saṅkar, s.m. Mixing together, intermixture, blending, confusing, confounding, confusion; irregular mixture, unlawful intermarriage, mixture of caste; a mixed caste or race, degraded caste (proceeding from the union of a man with a woman of a higher caste, or from the promiscuous intercourse of the four tribes, and again from the indiscriminate cohabitation of their descendants amongst each other. Most Hindūs of the present age are of one of the many branches of this race, the highest of which is impure, and is inferior to the Śūdra. According to the Rāmāyan, under the term saṅkar two kinds of men are included, 1˚yonisaṅkar, 'mixed or degraded by birth'; 2˚āćār-saṅkar, 'degraded by conduct').