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| | India - Caste and Class |
 | | Brahmans are usually expected to be nonviolent and spiritual, according with their traditional roles as vegetarian teetotaler priests. | | | Inequalities among castes are considered by the Hindu faithful to be part of the divinely ordained natural order and are expressed in terms of purity and pollution. | | | Brahman brides should be virginal, faithful to one husband, and celibate in widowhood. |
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http://countrystudies.us/india/89.htm
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| | Caste System and Casteism |
| | Note, Agni is a manifestation of BRAHMAN or Iswara. | | | Hinduism is a monotheistic religion with one God (Brahman) assuming many forms and names. | | | In the case of Saguna Brahman, there are two types of worship -- one is of a personal God as the Immanent, and the other by using symbols. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/_caste.html
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| | Raceandhistory.com - Apartheid Varna System |
| | "The Brahman caste is sprung from the gods; the Sudra from the Asuras" | | | Unfortunately some Vedist apologists refuse to believe that caste is racial in origin. | | | The varna system of India during the Brahmanic Ages (1500 BC - 1000 AD) is to be distinguished from caste systems in other parts of the world. |
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http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/varna.htm
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| | Caste System |
| | The basis of the caste system, according to the Hindu view, is men’s self-evident inborn inequality; physical, intellectual, and spiritual. | | | A BRAHMAN should study (the Vedas), offer sacrifices, make charities, and sojourn to the best of all holy places on the earth; he should teach, minister as a priest in sacrifices offered by others worthy of such help, and accept gifts from persons who are known. | | | By these evil deeds of the destroyers of the family, which cause confusion of castes, the eternal religious rites of the caste and the family are destroyed. |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/caste.htm
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| | Brahmin-every brahmin should read-amresh vashisht - www.ezboard.com |
| | Outside the Brahmanical Holy Land, spiritual leadership passed from the hands of priestly theologians and sacrificers to ascetics and wanderers (Sramana, Parivrajaka) who laid the utmost stress on non-injury to living beings and the cessation of craving for the things of the world. | | | The word "Brahman" in Sanskrit originally meant "power" and specifically referred to the power of prayer or sacrifice to bring about material change in the world (hence the word Brahmin for priest); so that Brahman seems to refer to the power that brings about and changes the physical universe. | | | The Brahmanical texts refer to the growing popularity of Vaisravana, Kumara (Karttikeya), and the goddesses Uma Haimvati and Vasini who are regarded as different naspects of Durga, the mother goddess, consort of Siva. |
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http://p196.ezboard.com/fyoga84291frm7.showMessage?topicID=121.topic
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| | Brahman |
| | In the Hindu pantheon, Brahman is identified with Brahma of the Hindu trinity of Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver) and Shiva (the Destroyer). | | | The word Brahman is derived from the Sanskrit word for power, specifically the power of ritual and sacrifice to change the material world. | | | Thus the many Hindu deities are manifestations of the one Brahman. |
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http://www.free-web-template.org/br/brahman.html
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| | Caste System in Hinduism |
| | According to the Hindu scriptures, the Brahmans have been sprung from the mouth of Brahma (Hindu god), the Kshatriyas from his arms, the Vashyas from his thigh and the Sudras from his feet. | | | A Hindu is born in a caste and he dies as a member of that caste. | | | The former includes the Brahman, the Kshatriya and the Vashya who are the descendants of the fair-skinned Aryan invaders and the latter includes the Sudras, who are dark in skin and are the offspring of the original inhabitants of India. |
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http://salam.muslimsonline.com/babri/caste.htm
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| | Between Sundays: Hinduism |
| | Some historians claim that castes were not originally a part of the Hindu religion but were created to defend the position of the Aryan ruling class against both the indigenous population and later conquerors. | | | Hinduism is sometimes referred to as the "religion of thirty-three million gods and goddesses." Traditional Hindu beliefs describe many gods and goddesses who live in the Himalayas of northern India. | | | The caste system (varna) is the framework on which Hindu society has been built for many centuries. |
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http://www.uua.org/clf/betweensundays/middlechildhood/Hindus2.html
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| | The Urantia Book: On-line Text |
| | In their efforts at self-preservation the Brahmans had rejected the one God of Melchizedek, and now they found themselves with the hypothesis of Brahman, that indefinite and illusive philosophic self, that impersonal and impotent it which has left the spiritual life of India helpless and prostrate from that unfortunate day to the twentieth century. | | | Caste alone could not perpetuate the Aryan religio-cultural system, and as the inferior religions of the Deccan permeated the north, there developed an age of despair and hopelessness. | | | The teaching that the soul is the indwelling of the Brahman would have paved the way for an advanced religion had not this concept been completely vitiated by the belief that there is no human individuality apart from this indwelling of the Universal One. |
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http://beamsdoorway.bizland.com/urantia/urantiabook/ppr094.htm
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| | BRAHMAN - Definition |
| | Brahman worship, holiness; the God Brahma, also Brahman): cf. | | | {Brahman bull} (Zo["o]l.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos. | | | [n] a member of the highest of the four Hindu castes; "originally all Brahmins were priests" |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/brahman
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| | Hinduism |
| | The elite caste is the Brahman, or priest caste. | | | The three-in-one god known as "Brahman", which is composed of: Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). | | | Finally, the fourth caste is the Shudras, or laborers. |
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http://www.creationapologetics.org/religions/hinduism.html
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| | Caste system originally recognized supremacy of warrior caste, Kshatriyas, followed by priests or Brahman caste, merchants and farmers (Vaisyas), and subsistence laborers (Sudras). | | | Buddhism: Identity of Buddha, Gautama, a young Kshatriya of the warrior caste. | | | Deals with religion kept by the priestly class, the brahmans, memorizing texts and reciting them. |
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http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/H102_11.doc
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| | Caste |
| | The highest caste is the Brahman (a), or priest, teacher, scholar, advisor group. | | | The Brahman (a) was given the death sentence, while the ones of lower castes were given sentences in prison, varying according to their caste. | | | The Kshatriya caste is referred to as the warrior caste. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/caste
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| | Cricket, Lagaan, and Caste |
| | The brahman is conspicuous by his absence, except as the priest in the background with no dialogue. | | | It is the acknowledgement of caste (in passing) and its negotiation/accommodation on casteist/brahmanic terms that makes Lagaan the darling of the liberal-seculars. | | | And cricket rules because the brahmanical caste system, with is bedrock as inequality, continues to grip India. |
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http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/Eatingwith.html
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| | Maithil Brahman -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The names of these Brahmans are usually followed by the appellation Misra; many great scholars have been members of this caste, notably Vacaspati Misra (9th century). | | | caste of Brahmans in Bihar, India (the area of the ancient kingdom of Mithila), well known for their orthodoxy and interest in learning. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9050196
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| | Encyclopedia Mythica: Hindu mythology |
| | It was during this time that the Brahman caste asserted that the gods need human priests to keep their power, and some of the rishis, or sages, became more powerful than the gods. | | | The major Vedic deities began to fall from their high positions and were slowly usurped by the cults of the three gods who came to dominate Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. | | | This is the basis for the caste system which still is very much a part of Indian life. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/asia/hindu/hindu_mythology.html
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| | Caste System in India |
| | And the caste system will stay as far as the doctrines of reincarnation and karma are practiced... | | | The infamous "caste system" is the result of the reincarnation and karma doctrines. | | | The best hope to get rid of the caste system is Christianity, to accept Jesus in your heart, and to live the glorious adventure of brotherhood in Christ, helping the needy and the oppressed... |
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http://www.religion-cults.com/Eastern/Hinduism/hindu7.htm
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| | Graduate Research in Nursing, November 2000. Grubbs, Concept Analysis: Ethnocentrism. |
| | The characteristics of an Indian caste include a rigid hereditary membership in the caste into which one is born; the practice of marrying only members of the same caste; restrictions on the choice of occupation on personal contact with members of other castes; and the acceptance by each individual of a fixed place in society. | | | The fourth of the castes was the Sudras, the laborers, born to be servants to the other three castes, especially the Brahman. | | | According to these religious beliefs, all people are reincarnated on earth, at which time they have a chance to be born into a higher caste, if they have been obedient to the rules of their caste in their previous life on earth (Encarta Encyclopedia, 1998). |
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http://www.graduateresearch.com/Grubbs.htm
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| | The Religious form of Caste System of India |
| | Below these castes are the outcasts who are untouchable to the four castes. | | | The intention in these two births is to the natural birth and to the ceremonial entrance to the society at a much later age. | | | Anyone who does not belong to one of these castes is an outcast. |
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http://adaniel.tripod.com/religious.htm
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| | Jain Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Like those of the Buddha, Mahavira’s doctrines were formulated as a reaction to and rejection of the Brahmanism (religion based on the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas and Upanisads) then taking shape. | | | Jainism and Buddhism, along with a school of materialists called Carvaka, were regarded as the unorthodox darsanas, because they taught that the Vedas and Upanisads, and hence the brahman caste, had no authority. | | | According to its own traditions, the teachings of Jainism are eternal, and hence have no founder; however, the Jainism of this age can be traced back to Mahavira, a teacher of the sixth century BCE, a contemporary of the Buddha. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/j/jain.htm
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| | The Jivamala - Bhairavanath, The Life of a Shavite Ascetic |
| | Your mother may have married below caste, or have had a forbidden alliance within caste, but you are a Brahman (and not an outcaste). | | | But once when I was young, I heard him speak with my uncle, and he said that marrying the Brahman witch was not worth what he now had to put up with. | | | I too came of Brahman caste but renounced it. |
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http://www.many-lives.com/lives/shiva-devotee-6.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Brahman |
| | Brahman (divine power), in the Vedic hymns, the cosmic power of the priestly utterance; Brahmán, the masculine form of the same noun, denotes the... | | | Brahman, highest Hindu caste, power of priests’ utterances | | | Brahman (social class), also spelled Brahmin, name of the sacerdotal, or highest, class (varna) in the system of Hinduism. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/Brahman.html
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| | Tora : Kukri : The Ghurka |
| | Chetri is a corruption of the Sanskrit word ksatriya, meaning one of Fighting caste. | | | The traditional Gorkha tribes (generally of Mongolian origin) are recruited along with the Chetri by the British Army to form the Gurkhas. | | | Tibetan people who have settled in Nepal, and are the main ones recruited into the Gurkha regiments outside of the main castes and tribes. |
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http://www.toratoratora.co.uk/kukri/ghurka.asp
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| | Punjabi.net discussions chat forums |
| | .BRAHMAN ARYAN wisdom radiates even unto the Jats and empowers them.Everyday you Jats bow down to the Granth Sahib which was written by upper caste Hindus. | | | To accept the caste system is to accept brahmanical hinduism and also to acept the brahmin& fairy story version of the world ans God. | | | Every time you talk about caste this and caste that, DO NOT be surprised if a Brahman tells you the truth......of your SHUDRA varna. |
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http://www.punjabi.net/talk/messages/1/4918.html?989981896
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| | India's Caste System |
| | Within each of these categories are the actual "castes" or jatis within which people are born, marry, and die. | | | Still today the values of the caste system are held strongly. | | | The Indian caste system has been in use for many years. |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring98/india.htm
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| | Search Results for Hinduism - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Hinduism in a wider sense encompasses Brahmanism, a belief in the Universal Soul, Brahman; in a narrower sense it comprises the post-Buddhist, caste-ordered religious and cultural world of India. | | | With some reservations, the religion of the majority of the population of the Indian subcontinent after the decline and exit of Buddhism can be called “Hinduism,&; to supplant the erstwhile... | | | In Vedic India, the early period of Hinduism, when the priestly caste (Brahman, or Brahmana) was vested in a particular tribe or special class, it occupied the primary place of importance in the... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Hinduism&ct=&fuzzy=N
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| | The Multiracial Activist - United States v. Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923) |
| | Indeed, the paucity of women of the Aryan stock would probably render these mixed unions almost a necessity from the very outset; and the vaunted purity of blood which the caste rules were calculated to perpetuate can scarcely have remained of more than a relative degree even in the case of the Brahman caste." | | | 561) as to the doubtful origin and effect of caste. | | | The rules of caste, while calculated to prevent this intermixture, seem not to have been entirely successful. |
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http://www.multiracial.com/government/thind.html
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| | AllRefer.com - aristocracy (Political Science: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia |
| | Aristocracy may be based on wealth as well as land, as in ancient Carthage and medieval Venice, or may be a theocracy like the Brahman caste in India. | | | Historically, aristocracies have usually rested on landed property, have invoked heredity, and, despite frequent conflicts with the throne, have flourished chiefly within the framework of monarchy. | | | Other criteria can be age, race, military prowess, or cultural attainment. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/aristocr.html
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