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- noun Plural form of
Vaisya .
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Examples
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Low-caste leaders now effectively attack both Congress and the BJP as upper-caste parties that serve the traditional elites: Brahmans, the priestly class; Kshatriya, the warriors; and Vaisyas, tradesmen.
A Grown-Up Election 2008
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Vaisyas and all the Brahmans bring clothes and other such articles as the monks require for use, and distribute among them.
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And Brahmanas and Kshatriyas and Vaisyas will disappear, leaving, O king, no remnants of their orders.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Vaisyas and Sudras, (in the Kali age) will practise morality and virtue deceitfully and men in general will deceive their fellows by spreading the net of virtue.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Vaisyas attain heaven, and their anxieties gone, sport with the celestials.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Krita age, the Vaisyas will be devoted to the practices of their order.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Those illustrious persons among Brahmanas or Kshatriyas or Vaisyas or Sudras that bathe in Pushkara are freed from the obligation of rebirth.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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In consequence of my energy from my mouth, my arms, my thighs, and my feet gradually sprang Brahmanas and Kshatriyas and Vaisyas and Sudras.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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All the kings of the earth, then, like Vaisyas, will, without delay, pay homage unto us.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Vaisyas with their virtue contracted and divested of asceticism and truth will all be reduced to an equality with the Sudras.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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