 These English words have no direct, universally accepted equivalent in Sanskrit or other Indian languages, but some scholars translate the word "dasa", mentioned in texts like "Manu Smriti", as slaves.Ancient historians who visited India offer the closest insights into the nature of Indian society and slavery in other ancient civilizations.For example, the Greek historian Arrian, who chronicled India about the time of Alexander the Great, wrote in his "Indika",


During the millennium long Chinese domination of Vietnam, Vietnam was a great source of slave girls who were used as sex slaves in China.