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(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
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They do not even figure in the Hindu varna (social classification) in which the sudras are at the lowest rung. — Top Stories - Google News
In Gita, which is accorded the highest place in the corpus of Hindu scriptures, God animated as Krishna states that the varna system is His creation. — Countercurrents.org
It can be further asserted that those sitting pretty at the top of the varna hierarchy have their dominance, superiority, privileges, heaven, salvation, or for that matter everything, secure so far as the varna system operates. — Countercurrents.org
Afterall, it is they who have bitterly exposed the reality of Hindu faith and have established beyond doubt that this faith is nothing but Brahmanism or the varna system. — Countercurrents.org
It was used to differentiate between Arya varna and Dasu varna. — Recently Uploaded Slideshows