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Vaisya

noun
1.
A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes.
2.
The third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category.





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"Vaisya" Quotes from Famous Books



... external auditory canal. On account of its emollient properties and probably on account of its twisted form, it is used internally as a decoction, in flatulence and the intestinal colic of children. It is indispensable in the marriage ceremonies of the caste of Vaisya, among whom it is customary for the groom to wear on his wrists in the form of bracelets, strings of this fruit combined ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera


Words linked to "Vaisya" :   Hindustani, varna, Hindoo, Hindu


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