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Vaisya

noun
1.
A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes.
2.
The third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category.





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... Brahma, the preserver: Vaisyas, Brahma the preserved. The dogma is otherwise explained: in the secondary or relative notion, Brahma is Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas, i. e. goodness, activity, darkness,—respectively represented by the Brahmana, Kshattriya, and Vaisya casts. ...
— Hindu Law and Judicature - from the Dharma-Sastra of Yajnavalkya • Yajnavalkya


Words linked to "Vaisya" :   Hindustani, Hindu, Hindoo, varna


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