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Usage of the term Rajanya possibly indicates the 'kinsmen of the Rajan' (i.e., kinsmen of the ruler) had emerged as a distinct social group then, [10] such that by the end of the Vedic period, the term rajanya was replaced by Kshatriya; where rajanya stresses kinship with the Rajan and Kshatriya denotes power over a specific domain. [10]
The earliest application to the formal division into four social classes (without using the term varna) appears in the late Rigvedic Purusha Sukta (RV 10.90.11–12), which has the Brahman, Rajanya (instead of Kshatriya), Vaishya and Shudra classes forming the mouth, arms, thighs and feet at the sacrifice of the primordial Purusha, respectively ...
Frontispiece, 1904 edition. Kshatriyas and would-be Kshatriyas: a consideration of the claims of certain Hindu castes to rank with the Rájputs, the descendants of the ancient Kshatriyas was written by Kumar Cheda Singh Varma [1] advocate at the Allahabad High Court.
Among people of upper castes only those Kshatriyas belonging to the Sat-Kshatriya sub-caste (noble Kshatriyas) were considered higher in status than the Brahmins who otherwise enjoyed the highest status in Rashtrakuta society. [4] A subcaste among Brahmins was the istin who were solely specialised in the teaching the profession. [5]
The usual four-tier Hindu caste system, involving the varnas of Brahmin (priest), Kshatriya (warrior), Vaishya (business person, involved in trading, entrepreneurship and finance) and Shudra (service person), did not exist. Kshatriyas were rare and the only Vaishyas were not present.
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
Vedas mention only rajanya for warriors and do not mention the term kshatriya (except for the purusha sukta). The term kshatriya came into being only from the dharmashastra period. Can anyone point out if there is any community today which can be called vedic kshatriyas, vedic vaishyas, or vedic shudras, as communities that existed since vedic ...
Traditionally, a Kshatriya would start learning the use of arms, while a Vaishya would start a trade apprenticeship. [ 4 ] The premise of the Dvija concept was that a person is born physically through his parents at home, spiritually through his teacher at school ( gurukul ) who helps the student form the mind and realize the self.