Dating to the mid 5th Century CE, the Mandsaur Silk Weavers' Inscription in Malwa is an excellent instance of a chronicle of a workers community in a Sanskrit medium. Written in rich metres and full of ornate figures of speech, this document can help us construct social histories of the deep past and Prathik and Revanth in this episode attempt exactly that. They as usual appreciate the aesthetic power of this document before querying what one can learn about migration patterns, corporate structures around silk-weaving, the power of choice when it came to job, social mobility, and of course, the elephant in the room: caste.
The text of the Mandsaur Inscription was first published in: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49403/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
On the Aulikara Dynasty: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23546
