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In pre-colonial India "tritiya prakriti" was an umbrella term encompassing all sterile, non-heterosexual, and transgender people. "Napumsa(ka)" and "nastriya" specified men and women, respectively, who were sterile for some physical reason. They could enter unions using the gandharva form of marriage, but rarely were allowed to inherit property, and were not required to perform the sraddha and huta sacrifices.[3]
Other words translated as "eunuchos" or "spado":
caillteanach or callach: Gaelic
coilltean: Irish
kazheniku or skopici: Old Church Slavonic
afyryda: Old English
geldingr: Old Norse
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