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What are the roots of the Caste System in India?
As per what I have read and learnt,
In the Purusha Suktam of the Yajur Veda
the following lines appear:
brAhmano asya mukhamAseet |
bAhoo rAjanya: krta: |
ooru tadasya yad vaishya |
padbhyAm shoodro ...
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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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Is there any counter example saying astrological varna and geetha varna are different?
Answers to this question says that astrological varna based on Zodiac sign of a person is same as the varna of a person assigned by Krishna. You can read the referred question for details.
But still ...
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Who was the father of Sage Kavasa?
This story comes in Aitareya Brahmana
the Risis, called the "middle ones" (Gritsamada, Visvamitra,
Vaniadeva, Atri, Bharadvfija, Vasistha, see Asv. Grihya Sutras, 3, 4),
hold once a ...
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Proof of hereditary caste system in Vedas OR Ramayana and Mahabharata
Edit: This is not a duplicate question because this is a specific question asking for proof for caste being heridetary, not just what Vedas have to say about caste. Please understand the difference.
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Which caste is "software developer"?
Advocates of the varnashrama dharma claim that we should follow the varna professions listed in the dharma shastras. For example:
10.47 - For Sūtas, the management of horses and chariots; for ...
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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
Vaiśya, ...
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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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Was ever Varna System based on Guna and/or Karm? [duplicate]
Was the Varna System ever based on Gunas?
These few points made me to think over this question
Number of combinations of Gunas are infinite as it is related to humane nature and the number of Varna ...
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Can Brahmin's give daan to lower Varnas if it helps them?
What is the view of giving daan to lower communities? Can I give daan to communities that would use it?
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Regarding Mixed Castes in Mahabharta
So the Tirtha Yantra Parva of the Mahabharata says mixed castes are considered better than the original when purification rites are performed. (https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-mahabharata-...
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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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Isn't the varna determined, by the Vedic varnashram, by birth? [duplicate]
As far as I know, varnashram is originally a Vedic idea, by which Shudras that were Not recognised as dvija were Not entitled for Upanayana that usually used to take place at the age of 8-11 years of ...
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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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The Metaphsyics of Varna
Clarification of Metaphsyics
A clarification: By metaphysical I mean more the system in which it's decided and the various aspects of it ie what differs a Brahmin-Brahmin from a Brahmin-Chandala and a ...
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How Varna System being based on Guna works?
Varna System was based on Guna. This sounds so nice but how we can classify people based on Guna because ...
Varna are only 4 and the number of Guna or combination of Gunas can be infinite as it's ...
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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?
Do they fall ...
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