Rebrova Liza Hindus believe a person is born into one of four castes based on karmahow he or she lived their past lives Brahmans Brahman is the highest caste of ancient India Brahmans ID: 530427
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Indian castes
Rebrova
LizaSlide2
Hindus believe a person is born into one of four castes based on karma-how he or she lived their
past lives.Slide3
BrahmansSlide4
Brahman
is
the highest caste of ancient India.
Brahmans
in ancient Indian society class (Varna) of the priests. The priests, the Brahmins made sacrifices to the gods, performed rituals, served as a the advisers of kings held in their hands a monopoly on literacy, the sacred texts of knowledge. The basis of division of society into Varna was the conviction that people are the same, each person has their duty-Dharma and his way of life.Slide5
KshatriyasSlide6
Kshatriyas
have always performed the duties of soldiers, guards and policemen.
Kshatriyas
engaged in the military or go into administrative work. To get married they can not only in their caste: a man can marry a girl from the caste just below, but for a woman to marry a man of lower caste is forbidden.
Kshatriyas
can eat animal products, but they also avoid the forbidden foods.Slide7
VaisyasSlide8
Vaisya
has always been the working class: they were engaged in farming, raised cattle, traded.
Now the representatives of the
vaiśya
to engage in economic and financial Affairs, various trade, banking sector. Probably this caste is the most scrupulous in matters related to eating: a
Vaisya
like no one else to monitor the correctness of the preparation of meals and never taken for contaminated food
. Slide9
ShudrasSlide10
Shudra
has always existed in the role of peasants or even slaves: they were doing the dirty and hard work. Even in our time, this social layer is the poor and often live below the poverty line. The
shudras
can marry even divorced women.Slide11
UntouchablesSlide12
Separately stands out the untouchables: these people are excluded from all social relations. They do the dirty jobs: clean the streets and toilets, burning dead animals, excrete the skin.
Amazingly
, members of this caste could not even step on the shadow of the representatives of the higher classes. And only recently they were allowed to enter the temples and approach to people of other classes.Slide13
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