1) Caste
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1) Hindoo 2) Hindu 3) Hindustani
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a person with natural aptitude for managing money, trading, farming, and skilled labor. One of the four varṇas.
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• (n.) The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.
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A member of the third
caste in India's caste system. Originally the occupations of people belonging to the Vaisya caste would have encompassed agriculture, trade, and the rearing of livestock. Today...
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Vais'ya noun [ Sanskrit
vaiçya .] The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under
Caste , 1.
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Vaisya is the third or ordinary class in ancient Hindu society. Described in the Rig-Veda as sprung from the thighs of Purusha, it comprised the free commonalty, the ordinary folk engaged in providing the Aryan community with the necessities of life. To them were entrusted the material interests of agriculture, cattle-raising, handicraft, and trade...
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[
n] - a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste 2. [n] - the third of the four main Hindu castes: the mercantile and professional caste
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noun the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category
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A member of the third caste in India's caste system. Originally the occupations of people belonging to the Vaisya caste would have encompassed agriculture, trade, and the rearing of livestock. Today traders of products and sellers of goods are the predominant occupations. Legend teaches that members of the Vaisya evolved from Brahma's thigh...
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