sudras in A Sentence

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    Sometimes wealthy Sudras are mentioned, and in later centuries some of them even became kings.

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    Sudras who could not improve themselves fall into that ocean and are forced to eat those disgusting things.

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    Sudras were not allowed to take water from ponds or wells as their touch would pollute the water.

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    Sudras were not allowed to enter the temples or other places of worship whereas the other three classes had full rights to worship.

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    However, this is only done by Vaisyas and Sudras, whilst it is forbidden to Brahmans and Kshatriyas, who in consequence do not commit suicide.

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    Sudras, however, were never recommended for such appointments as according to the ethos of that period they were not supposed to learn the sacred tekts.

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    Al- Biruni mentions them' after the Sudras' and adds that they were' not reckoned amongst any caste, but only as members of a certain craft or profession?

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    The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless violence, and all the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level of Sudras.

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    Some people will say well, it was ok, there was some restrictions on, even on the, what you call the upper caste, there was some restrictions on the Sudras, there was some restrictions on the avarnas and it is all ok.

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    They instilled in the Sudras, or those of the lowest caste, the belief that their menial work was God- ordained punishment for bad deeds done in a former existence and that any attempt to break the caste barrier would make them outcastes.

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    This social gradation was given a religious sanction by invoking a verse from the Rig Veda to the effect that the Brahmins came from the face of the Creator, the Kshatriyas from His arms, the Vaishyas from His thighs and the Sudras from the soles of His feet.

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    This, however, no man of distinction does, but only Vaisyas and Sudras, especially at those times which are prized as the most suitable for a man to acquire in them, for a future repetition of life, a better form and condition than that in which he happens to have been born and to live.

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