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Jati

noun

(pl. jatis)

(Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter).

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"Jati" Quotes from Famous Books

... be annihilated. Similarly birth depends on Bhava which means becoming and does not imply anything self-existent and stationary: all the world is a continual process of coming into existence and passing away. It is on the universality of this process that birth (jati) depends. But on what does the endless becoming itself depend? We seem here on the threshold of the deepest problems but the answer, though of wide consequences, brings us back to the strictly human and didactic sphere. Existence depends on Upadana. This word means literally ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

Words linked to "Jati" : caste, varna, Hindooism, Hinduism