kshatriya in English

noun
1
a member of the second of the four great Hindu castes, the military caste. The traditional function of the Kshatriyas is to protect society by fighting in wartime and governing in peacetime.
The Kshatriya must use power to protect the rights of the weak, for that is his dharma, the truth of his nature.

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1. Sura, a beverage brewed from rice meal, wheat, sugar cane, grapes, and other fruits, was popular among the Kshatriya warriors and the peasant population.

2. Many kshatriya considered it shameful to die in bed, and in their old age often arranged for a yuddha-dhan, literally meaning "combat charity".

3. This period saw also the beginning of the social stratification by the use of varna, the division of Vedic society in Kshatriya, Brahmins, Vaishya and Shudra.

4. (i) A Brahminist is someone who subscribes to the varna ideology which divides the Indian society into four varnas and a fifth category, of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra and Dalit, arranged

5. The concept of Varna describes four main socio-psychological types, whereby human psychological and physical endowment and social motivations are expressed: the Vipra (intellectual), Kshatriya (warrior), Vaishya (acquisitor) and Shudra (labourer).

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