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Did demons also have a Varna system?
Is there any reference of a demon or rakshasa having a varna? Was the Varna system followed by Rakshasas?
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Under which varna do bureaucrats come?
Do modern day bureaucrats come under the kshatriya varna? Any example related to this from shastras?
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If kshatriyas and vaishyas don't exist, who can take up arms and do farming?
For example, the shastra says only people born as kshatriyas and who have done upanayanam can be military or police:
Manu 10.79 - For the Kṣatriya, carrying of arms and weapons. For the
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Was Dronacharya Brahmin or Kshatriya? or both? or neither?
Many people these days scream that varna is determined ONLY by guna & karma, not ONLY by janma.
Dronacharya was a teacher, a brahmin by varna who followed his svadharma.
Later in Kurukshetra war, ...
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Confusion regarding Cure of Varnasankar in Dharmasutra
I was searching a cure for Varnasankarata, & found an answer of Rickross on an already existing Question about it's remedy. There Rick quoted Gautama Dharmasutra highlighting that the Seventh ...
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Is Varna and Bodily Gunas have a similar system to genetics
Varna is based on birth or one's Gotra, but I found some similarities when studying simple Mendelian genetics keep in mind this is simple and not modern genetics. Now I am not saying necessarily that ...
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If a person reverts back to sanatan dharma which varna does he belong
If a person do gharwapsi to sanatan dharma which varna does he belong
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Or his daily work will determine the varna??
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Are the first/early members of each varna mentioned in the scriptures?
Verse 1.31 from the Manu Smriti
But for the sake of the prosperity of the worlds he caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Sudra to proceed from his mouth, his arms, his thighs, and ...
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What community of Brahmins have generally darker skin?
What community of Brahmins generally have darker skin?
(I've seen some claims that varna is attached to skin color, and want to have evidence with which to possibly refute them.)
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Books for Anyone Regarding the complex nature of Varna
I want books not modern ones, but ones by authentic religious personalities from olden times on the system of Varna and their differentitation of bodily and mental gunas. I would prefer a more ...
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Gunas and Varna better explanation
So I know the basics of Varna and the Gunas I have read the Bhagavad Gita, but I am still confused about the nature of Varna. Bhishma in the Anusasanika Parva describes a changing Varna to a Brahmana ...
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Varna of the Jatt people acc to Hindu scriptures?
It is said that Jatts are originally from central Asia and hence either pure Aryans or mixture of Aryan fathers and native Indian Rajanya women
Have they been mentioned in the scriptures?
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