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Hindu religious texts assigned Vaishyas to traditional roles in agriculture and cattle-rearing, but over time they came to be landowners, traders and money-lenders. [1] They ranked third in the varna system below Brahmins and Kshatriyas and traditionally had the responsibility to provide sustenance or patronage for the higher varnas. [2]
The caste system in India is the ... classes, followed by Vaishyas ... society by the observance of caste rules and were regarded by the Hindus as a caste occupying a ...
The Mahabharata, estimated to have been completed by about the 4th century CE, discusses the Varna system in section 12.181. [11] The Epic offers two models on Varna. The first model describes Varna as colour-coded system, through a sage named Bhrigu, "Brahmins Varna was white, Kshtriyas was red, Vaishyas was yellow, and the Shudras' black". [11]
About three years ago the Census Commissioner in India (The Hon. Mr. H H. Risley, C.S, C.S.I.) directed that, for the Census of India, 1901, a scheme should be drawn up classifying the various Hindu castes under the four groups of Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Sudras; and assigning to each caste in these groups its proper position ...
Vaishya Vani is a sub-caste of Vaishyas, one of the varnas of Hinduism.In the Gujarat state and the Daman territory, they are also known as Vaishnav or Vaishnav Vanik. [1] In Uttara Kannada districts of Karwar and Ankola they are called as Vaishya Vani, or Vani.their mother tongue is Konkani which they speak among themselves in the states of Gujrat, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra.
While the Indian caste system generally divided the four-fold Varna division of the society into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, in Kerala, that system was absent. The Malayali Brahmins formed the priestly class, and they considered all other castes to be either shudra or avarna (those outside the varna system).
The devotees rushed to collect soil from the ground the man had just walked on, thousands thronging to the front of a venue densely crammed with a quarter of a million people, under stifling heat.
The caste system in Sri Lanka is a division of society into strata, [40] influenced by the textbook jāti system found in India. Ancient Sri Lankan texts such as the Pujavaliya, Sadharmaratnavaliya and Yogaratnakaraya and inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal period.