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单词 Sudra
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Definition of Sudra in English:

Sudra

noun ˈsuːdrəˈʃuːdrə
  • A member of the worker caste, lowest of the four Hindu castes.

    首陀罗之一员(印度四个种姓等级中的最低等级)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kunbis are mainly farmers and Sudras (servants and artisans - the lowest of the four major caste groups).
    • Manu uses derogatory words for her, and Tulsi Das goes to the extent of classifying her with cattle, Sudras and the vulgar.
    • The fourth-ranking category were the Sudras, primarily farmers.
    • If that isn't strange enough, three castes have a spiritual birthright which is denied to the Sudras.
    • Such a ban can cut off the umbilical chord that links a Sudra [member of a low caste] with his own god as happens in the case of Appi, the protagonist in this tale.
    • Following are some of the prescriptions of Manu for Sudras or lower castes.
    • In fact, Sudras can identify with the buffalo because it has an Indianness to it - its dark colour and high productivity.
    • Balinese society is divided into four castes, or social classes: Brahmana, Satria, Wesia, and Sudra.
    • The Seniority of Brahmanas is from Sacred Knowledge, that of Kshatriyas from valour, that of Vaisyas from wealth in grain, but that of Sudras is from age alone.
    • Thus, in addressing a group of missionaries in Calcutta, Gandhi quoted from a mediaeval devotional poet from the Sudra caste to summarize the essentials of various religious texts.
    • There are four castes or varnas, to which particular dharmas attach: the Brahmans (who teach), the Kshatriya (who protect, and are warriors and benefactors), the Vaishyas (who trade) and the Sudras (who are servants).
    • His mouth became the Brahmana, his arms became the Rajnya, his thighs became the Vaishya, and the Sudra was born from his feet.
    • Next come the Kshatriyas, the soldiers and administrators, then the Vaisyas, the artisans and commercial class, and finally the Sudras, the farmers and rural working class.
    • While Manu Smriti denied born Sudras as well as women access to higher training, we all know from the above examples that Narad, and Karna did have excess to education and training in the past.
    • The Bhagavad Gita, again considered by historians like D.D. Kosambi to be a later Brahminical interpolation in the Mahabharata, brackets Vaisyas, Sudras and women together and calls them the ‘base-born’.
    • I propose a system in which all of us Hindus live through the Sudra, Kshatriya, Vysya and Brahmin Castes at different stages in our lives.
    • The classic Varna system was, however, found to be notional in Orissa, as one witnesses primarily two Varnas during this period - Brahmins and Sudras - and a virtual absence of Vaishyas and Kshatriyas.
    • If, on the other hand, these qualities are present in one who is born in a Sudra family, then he is a Brahmin.
    • The Aryan-speaking peoples developed this system, which divides people into four categories: Brahmans (priests and scholars), Ksatriyas (warriors and rulers), Vaisyas (traders and farmers), and Sudras (servants and artisans).
    • Under the system, society is divided into Brahmins (priestly class), Kshatriyas (warrior class), Vaishyas (trading class) and Sudras (serving class) in descending order of superiority and social status.

Origin

From Sanskrit śūdra.

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